What Is Existential Anthropology?

What Is Existential Anthropology?What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? What has been gained by using existential perspectives in your fieldwork and writing? Editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette each invited anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic to address these questions and explore how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory. Both editors also bring their own perspective: while

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Patrick Laude brings them together to argue that an understanding of their inner Islam challenges reductionist views of Islam as an essentially legalistic tradition and highlights its spiritual qualities

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and Empedocles from within the realm opened up by Heidegger's thinking

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Also included are rich narrative case studies

Drawing extensively on Portuguese as well as British sources

shared experiences of participants engaged in second-person approaches to contemplative practice

among a myriad of other matters

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