Lifeworlds : essays in existential anthropology / Michael Jackson.
| Author/creator | Jackson, Michael, 1940- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013, ©2013. |
| Description | xvii, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2012011667 |
| ISBN | 9780226923642 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 9780226923659 (paperback. : alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 0226923649 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 0226923657 (paperback. : alkaline paper) |