What is existential anthropology / edited by Michael Jackson and Albert Piette.
What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? What has been gained by using existential perspectives in your fieldwork and writing? Editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette each invited anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic to address these questions and explore how various...
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Anthropology and the Existential Turn
- Chapter 1. Conversion and Convertibility in Northern Mozambique
- Chapter 2. Both/And
- Chapter 3. Reading Bruno Latour in Bahia
- Chapter 4. The Station Hustle
- Chapter 5. Mobility and Immobility in the Life of an Amputee
- Chapter 6. Existential Aporias and the Precariousness of Being
- Chapter 7. Existence, Minimality, and Believing
- Chapter 8. Considering Human Existence
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.