How Lifeworlds Work: Emotionality, Sociality, and the Ambiguity of Being
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:022649196X
ISBN13:9780226491967
Release Date:October 2017
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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