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1. 1. What Is Existential Anthropology?

   

   A concise manifesto for an anthropology rooted in lived experience, it critiques abstract, system-driven models and centers the ordinary, contingent, and relational facets of life. Emphasizing intersubjectivity, narrative, and the ethical stakes of fieldwork, it shows how people improvise meaning, sustain agency, and endure suffering amid uncertainty. Drawing on existential and phenomenological insights, it reframes ethnography as a collaborative practice of attending to movement, betweenness, and transformative thresholds. The approach privileges practical wisdom over theory, seeking to understand how possibilities are opened and constrained in everyday worlds.

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2. 2. Minima Ethnographica

   Intersubjectivity and the Anthropological Project

   

   A meditation on ethnography as an existential, intersubjective practice, this work interweaves philosophical reflection with vivid fieldwork vignettes to show how understanding emerges in the lived, dialogic encounters between people. Moving between Sierra Leone and Aboriginal Australia, it explores how individuals craft workable lives amid suffering, uncertainty, and constraint, and how exchange, storytelling, and embodied presence shape relations across difference. Rejecting grand theory in favor of modest, situational insights, it highlights the limits of representation while advocating an ethics of attentiveness, reciprocity, and shared vulnerability in anthropological engagement.

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