
Lifeworlds
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Traveling from the Kuranko in Sierra Leone to the Maori in New Zealand to the Warlpiri in Australia, Jackson argues that anthropological subjects continually negotiate-imaginatively, practically, and politically-their relations with the forces surrounding them and the resources they find in themselves or in solidarity with significant others. At the same time that they mirror facets of the larger world, they also help shape it. Stitching the themes, peoples, and locales of these essays into a sustained argument for a philosophical anthropology that focuses on the places between, Jackson offers a pragmatic understanding of how people act to make their lives more viable, to grasp the elusive, to counteract external powers, and to turn abstract possibilities into embodied truths.
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- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Scope of Existential Anthropology
- 2. How to Do Things with Stones
- 3. Knowledge of the Body
- 4. The Migration of a Name: Alexander in Africa
- 5. The Man Who Could Turn into an Elephant
- 6. Custom and Conflict in Sierra Leone: An Essay on Anarchy
- 7. Migrant Imaginaries: With Sewa Koroma in Southeast London
- 8. The Stories That Shadow Us
- 9. Familiar and Foreign Bodies: A Phenomenological Exploration of the Human-Technology Interface
- 10. The Prose of Suffering
- 11. On Autonomy: An Ethnographic and Existential Critique
- 12. Where Thought Belongs: An Anthropological Critique of the Project of Philosophy
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
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