How Lifeworlds Work: Emotionality, Sociality, and the Ambiguity of Being

by Michael D. Jackson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022649182X
• ISBN13: 9780226491820
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"