Minima Ethnographica by Michael D. Jackson
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.
- Published
- 1998
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 249
- Original Language
- English
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