Lifeworlds : essays in existential anthropology / Michael Jackson.

Author/creator Jackson, Michael, 1940-
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013, ©2013.
Descriptionxvii, 339 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents The scope of existential anthropology -- How to do things with stones -- Knowledge of the body -- The migration of a name: Alexander in Africa -- The man who could turn into an elephant -- Custom and conflict in Sierra Leone: an essay on anarchy -- Migrant imaginaries: with Sewa Koroma in southeast London -- The stories that shadow us -- Foreign and familiar bodies: a phenomenological exploration of the human-technology interface -- The prose of suffering -- On autonomy: an ethnographic and existential critique -- Where thought belongs: an anthropological critique of the project of philosophy -- Epilogue.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012011667
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