What Is Existential Anthropology? by Michael Jackson

What Is Existential Anthropology? by Michael Jackson

What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? Contributing anthropologists join editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette in answering these questions and exploring how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory.

“Overall, this book offers fascinating insights into the potentialities of existential anthropology… it allows to step beyond some of the conceptions that have governed past edited collections in this field, without yielding to current fads in Anglophone anthropology” · Sociologus

“In giving insight into the existential questions that arise from specific ‘moments of being’, this book will form a crucial point of departure for anyone who is interested in the continuously shifting conditions of human existence.” · Anthropology & Humanism

“…an important addition to current theoretical debates in anthropology about the human condition… The quality of contributions is consistently high and the writing style diverse… This present volume provides a strong challenge to recent trends and ‘turns’, and broadens the debate about the aims and future of anthropology.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“This book… is – not despite but because of the theoretical tensions between Jackson and Piette – a highly recommendable collection of essays. The explicit and implicit ‘Auseinandersetzung’ between the founding fathers of existential anthropology qualifies the question raised by the title of the book and indicates a wider range of possibilities for existential anthropological analysis than either of the works published individually by the two frontrunners have hitherto accomplished.” · Anthropos

“This is a book whose time has come… Focusing on themes like contingency, the open-endedness of life projects, and the lived tension between emergent properties like security and freedom, existential anthropology attends to the human condition rather than just culture.” · Don Seeman, Emory University

“This is a very significant intervention in current debates about the aims and future of anthropology: the ethnography we are introduced to here is richly contemporary both in the kinds of methodological questions it raises and in terms of the status it gives to individual human experience. What is Existential Anthropology? marks out a strong challenge to recent fashionable 'turns' of theorizing.” · Huon Wardle, University of St Andrews

Michael Jackson is Distinguished Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He has done fieldwork among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone, the Warlpiri of Central Australia, the Kuku-Yalanji of Cape York Peninsula, and with African migrants in Europe. He is the author of over thirty books of ethnography, poetry, and fiction.

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Title	What Is Existential Anthropology?
Author	Michael Jackson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berghahn Books
Year published	2017-10-01
Number of pages	254
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