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Overview
The postmodern opposition between theory and lived reality has led in part to an anthropological turn to "dialogic" or "reflexive" approaches. Michael Jackson claims these approaches are hardly radical as they still drift into such abstractions as "society" or "culture." His Minima Ethnographica proposes an existential anthropology that recognizes even abstract relationships as modalities of interpersonal life.
Written in the style of Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia, Jackson's work shows how general ideas are always anchored in particular social events and critical concerns. Emphasizing the intersubjective encounter over objective descriptions of the whole historical and contemporary situation of a given people, he illustrates the power and originality of existential anthropology through a series of vignettes from his fieldwork in Sierra Leone and Australia. An award-winning poet, novelist, and anthropologist, Jackson offers a timely critique of conventions that dull our sense of the links between academic study and lived experience.
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Poet, novelist, and anthropologist Jackson illustrates the power of existential-phenomenological anthropology with vignettes from his fieldwork in Sierra Leone and Australia. He focuses on anthropology as a study of relationships, and on the relationship between the particular and the universal. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Product Details
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Michael Jackson is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments The One and the Many The Intersubjective Turn Seven Types of Intersubjective Ambiguity Vita Activa Balance/Control Life Stories The Itinerary of an Idea Playing with Reality Writing Intersubjectivity Borderlines Distance Lends Enchantment Penis Snatchers Auctoritas Chiasmus Sacrifice Fetish Color Triad Roads and Bridges The Other Island First Contact The Women Who Became the Pleiades Losing the Straight Way Myths/Histories/Lives Clearing the Ground The Bag of Clothes Ghosts An Etiology of Storms Jarramali Bajaku Storying Fugue Where Thought Belongs An Island in the Stream References Index