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Book SynopsisRejecting abstractions of culture, this text proposes an existential anthropology that recognizes even abstract relationships as modalities of interpersonal life. Michael Jackson's work shows how general ideas are always anchored in particular social events and critical concerns.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments The One and the Many The Intersubjective Turn Seven Types of Intersubjective Ambiguity Vita Activa Balance/Control Life Stories The Itinerary of an Idea Playing with Reality Writing Intersubjectivity Borderlines Distance Lends Enchantment Penis Snatchers Auctoritas Chiasmus Sacrifice Fetish Color Triad Roads and Bridges The Other Island First Contact The Women Who Became the Pleiades Losing the Straight Way Myths/Histories/Lives Clearing the Ground The Bag of Clothes Ghosts An Etiology of Storms Jarramali Bajaku Storying Fugue Where Thought Belongs An Island in the Stream References Index
