Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and Effects
.what is truly worthwhile in this loose grouping of essays is the ethnographic examples. Powerfully presented, beautifully written (the final three pages of the book offer poignantly evocative description of ethnography as a way of living) and loaded with telling detail. · Arthur Kleinman in the JRAIInspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality o…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84545-122-6
- EAN: 9781845451226
- Produktnummer: 3966913
- Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 371 g
- Auflage: New
- Reihenbandnummer: 11
- Gewicht: 371
Über den Autor
Michael Jackson is a graduate of the Universities of Auckland (New Zealand and Cambridge (UK), and has, for many years, carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Sierra Leone and Aboriginal Australia. The author of numerous books of anthropology, including the prize-winning Paths Toward a Clearing and At Home in the World, he has also published five books of poetry and two novels. Michael Jackson has taught in his native New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Denmark, where he is presently Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.
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