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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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