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Author Jackson, Michael, 1940- author.

Title How lifeworlds work : emotionality, sociality, and the ambiguity of being / Michael Jackson
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2017

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Contents Preface; Part 1; Ritual, Affect, and Transitional Phenomena; The Wedding Haka; Spoken Emotions; Making Palaver; Crossing the Water; Positions, Dispositions, and Transpositions; The Raw Material of Ritual; Initiation and Rebellion; Ritualization; The Weather of the Heart; Sacrifice; Surviving Loss and Remaking the World; Death's Aftermath; Burial; Quarantine; Role Reversals and Mimetic Rites; Being a Part of and Being Apart From; Coping with Crisis; Part 2; The Dynamics of Kinship; Kinship and Scarcity; Birth; Relative Distance; Husbands and Wives; Elder Brother- Younger Brother
Joking and AvoidanceExistential Inequity: Favoritism, Fathers and Sons, and Fadenye; The Emotional Life of Stories; Force Fields; Political Emotions; The Ferensola Story; Words and Deeds; Coda: Emotions in the Field; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
Summary Michael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted. In How Lifeworlds Work, Jackson draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa to highlight the dynamic quality of human relationships and reinvigorate the study of kinship and ritual. How, he asks, do we manage the perpetual process of accommodation between social norms and personal emotions, impulses, and desires? How are these two dimensions of lived reality joined, and how are the dual imperatives of individual expression and collective viability managed? Drawing on the pragmatist tradition, psychology, and phenomenology, Jackson offers an unforgettable, beautifully written account of how we make, unmake, and remake, our lifeworlds
Analysis affect
emotionality
intersubjectivity
kinship
ritualization
sociality
Subject Anthropology -- Philosophy
Emotions -- Anthropological aspects.
Phenomenological anthropology.
Intersubjectivity.
Rites and ceremonies.
Kinship.
Kuranko (African people)
Ethnology -- Sierra Leone.
Existential phenomenology.
rites.
ceremonies.
kinship.
Social Science -- General.
Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Religion -- Philosophy.
Philosophy -- Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Anthropology -- Philosophy
Emotions -- Anthropological aspects
Ethnology
Existential phenomenology
Intersubjectivity
Kinship
Kuranko (African people)
Phenomenological anthropology
Rites and ceremonies
Koranko
Ethnologie
Sierra Leone
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226492018
022649201X