Table of Contents

Introduction: Phenomenology, Radical Empiricism, and Anthropological Critique, by Michael Jackson
Honor and Shame, by Lila Abu-Lughod
Struggling Along, by Robert Desjarlais
The Cosmology of Life Transmission, by Rene Devisch
Reflections on a Cut Finger: Taboo in the Umeda Conception of the Self, by Alfred Gell
Space and Sociality in a Dayak Longhouse, by Christine Helliwell
In Defiance of Destiny: The Management of Time at a Cretan Funeral, by Michael Herzfeld
Suffering and Its Professional Transformation: Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience, by Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman
Hand Drumming: An Essay in Practical Knowledge, by Shawn Lindsay
On Dying and Suffering in Iqwaye Existence, by Jadran Mimica
If Not the Words: Shared Practical Activity and Friendship in Fieldwork, by Keith Ridler
After the Field, by Jim Wafer

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Well-known scholars examine the relevance of phenomenology for anthropology.

About the Author

Michael D. Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many books include Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology; Between One and One Another; Road Markings: An Anthropologist in the Antipodes; and Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives (IUP, 1982).