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Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and Effects
Regina Schulte (Ed.)
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Description for Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and Effects
Paperback. Editor(s): Schulte, Regina; Jackson, Michael. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
.what is truly worthwhile in this loose grouping of essays is the ethnographic examples. Powerfully presented, beautifully written (the final three pages of the book offer poignantly evocative description of ethnography as a way of living) and loaded with telling detail. * Arthur Kleinman in the JRAI Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, ... Read more
.what is truly worthwhile in this loose grouping of essays is the ethnographic examples. Powerfully presented, beautifully written (the final three pages of the book offer poignantly evocative description of ethnography as a way of living) and loaded with telling detail. * Arthur Kleinman in the JRAI Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845451226
SKU
V9781845451226
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About Regina Schulte (Ed.)
Michael Jackson is a graduate of the Universities of Auckland (New Zealand and Cambridge (UK), and has, for many years, carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Sierra Leone and Aboriginal Australia. The author of numerous books of anthropology, including the prize-winning Paths Toward a Clearing and At Home in the World, he has also published five books of poetry and two ... Read more
Reviews for Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and Effects
This book is a thoroughly wise one, learned, patient, and humane: an inspiring companion with which to journey anthropologically to human lifeworlds at any stage of one's life-project. - American Ethnologist ...what is truly worthwhile in this loose grouping of essays is the ethnographic examples. Powerfully presented, beautifully written (the final three pages ... Read more