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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[R]eaders of this volume are presented with a strong case for the relevance of a particular (and major) strand within the phenomenological tradition to anthropology, along with several lucid demonstrations of how that strand can be used within anthropological analyses... [P]rovides a new and coherent orientation to what has been happening in the field." -Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Phenomenology's Methodological Invitation Kalpana Ram and Christopher Houston
1. Moods and Method: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on Emotion and Understanding Kalpana Ram
2. Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Body-World Relations Thomas J. Csordas
3. Sacred Suffering: A Phenomenological Anthropological Perspective C. Jason Throop
4. Being 'Sita': Physical Affects in the North Indian Dance of kathak Monica Dalidowicz
5. Beneath the Horizon: The Organic Body's Role in Athletic Experience Greg Downey
6. Unmeasured Music and Silence Ian Bedford
7. Experiencing Self-Abstraction: Studio Production and Vocal Consciousness Daniel Fisher
8. Being-in-the-Covenant: Reflections on the Crisis of Historicism in North Malaita, Solomon Islands Jaap Timmer
9. Seared with Reality: Phenomenology through Photography, in Nepal Robert Desjarlais
10. Writing Affect, Love and Desire into Ethnography L.L. Wynn
11. Senses of Magic: Anthropology, Art, and Christianity in the Vula'a Lifeworld Deborah Van Heekeren
12. Neither Things in Themselves nor Only for Someone: Anthropology, Phenomenology and Poetry Christopher Houston
Afterword Michael Jackson
