
How Lifeworlds Work
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In How Lifeworlds Work, Jackson draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa to highlight the dynamic quality of human relationships and reinvigorate the study of kinship and ritual. How, he asks, do we manage the perpetual process of accommodation between social norms and personal emotions, impulses, and desires? How are these two dimensions of lived reality joined, and how are the dual imperatives of individual expression and collective viability managed? Drawing on the pragmatist tradition, psychology, and phenomenology, Jackson offers an unforgettable, beautifully written account of how we make, unmake, and remake, our lifeworlds.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Part 1
- Ritual, Affect, and Transitional Phenomena
- The Wedding Haka
- Spoken Emotions
- Making Palaver
- Crossing the Water
- Positions, Dispositions, and Transpositions
- The Raw Material of Ritual
- Initiation and Rebellion
- Ritualization
- The Weather of the Heart
- Sacrifice
- Surviving Loss and Remaking the World
- Death's Aftermath
- Burial
- Quarantine
- Role Reversals and Mimetic Rites
- Being a Part of and Being Apart From
- Coping with Crisis
- Part 2
- The Dynamics of Kinship
- Kinship and Scarcity
- Birth
- Relative Distance
- Husbands and Wives
- Elder Brother- Younger Brother
- Joking and Avoidance
- Existential Inequity: Favoritism, Fathers and Sons, and Fadenye
- The Emotional Life of Stories
- Force Fields
- Political Emotions
- The Ferensola Story
- Words and Deeds
- Coda: Emotions in the Field
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
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