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Author Jackson, Michael, 1940-

Title Lifeworlds : essays in existential anthropology / Michael Jackson
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012
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Description 1 online resource ( xvii, 339 pages)
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 Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Anthropology -- Philosophy.
Ethnology -- Sierra Leone.
Kuranko (African people)
Human body.
Existential phenomenology.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0226923665 (e-book)
9780226923666 (e-book)