What Is Existential Anthropology?

Herausgeber: Jackson, Michael; Piette, Albert

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781785337437
• ISBN-10: 1785337432
• Artikelnr.: 48385963

Autorenporträt

Albert Piette is Professor of Anthropology at Paris West University Nanterre and researcher at Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology. In fieldwork, he has observed carnivals and festivals in Belgium, and quotidian life in Catholic parishes of France. He is author of over fifteen books in French about the epistemology and observation of details, religious phenomena, and rituals.  

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Anthropology and the Existential Turn
Michael Jackson and Albert Piette
Chapter 1. Continuities of Change: Conversion and Convertibility in
Northern Mozambique
Devaka Premawardhana
Chapter 2. Both/And
Michael Lambek
Chapter 3. Reading Bruno Latour in Bahia
Mattijs Van de Port
Chapter 4. The Station Hustle: Ghanaian Migration Brokerage in a Disjointed
World
Hans Lucht
Chapter 5. Mobility and Immobility in the Life of an Amputee
Sónia Silva
Chapter 6. Existential Aporias and the Precariousness of Being
Michael Jackson
Chapter 7. Existence, Minimality and Believing
Albert Piette
Chapter 8. Considering Human Existence: An existential reading of Michael
Jackson and Albert Piette.
Laurent Denizeau
Notes on Contributors
Index