Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology

摘要: Michael Jackson's "Lifeworlds" is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination career aimed at understanding relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking truths that are found in interstices examiner examined, world word, body mind, taking inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Husserl, Sartre, Camus, and, especially, Merleau-Ponty, Jackson creates these chapters distinctive anthropological pursuit existential inquiry. More important, he buttresses this philosophical approach with committed empirical research. Traveling Kuranko Sierra Leone to Maori New Zealand Warlpiri Australia, argues subjects continually negotiate - imaginatively, practically, politically their relations forces surrounding them resources they find themselves or solidarity significant others. At same time mirror facets larger world, also help shape it. Stitching themes, people, locales essays into sustained argument for focuses on places between, offers pragmatic how people act make lives more viable, grasp elusive, counteract external powers, turn abstract possibilities embodied truths.