Lifeworlds : essays in existential anthropology /

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Author / Creator:Jackson, Michael, 1940-
Imprint:Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013, ©2013.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 339 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11160331
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ISBN:9780226923666
0226923665
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"Michael Jackson's Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Husserl, Sartre, Camus, and, especially, Merleau-Ponty, Jackson creates in these chapters a distinctive anthropological pursuit of existential inquiry. More important, he buttresses this philosophical approach with committed empirical research. 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."--Provided by the publisher.
Other form:Print version: Jackson, Michael, 1940- Lifeworlds. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013, ©2013 9780226923642