Phenomenological approaches in anthropology

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2011, Pages 87-102

  Desjarlais, Robert ^a   Jason Throop, C ^b  

^a SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology of Mind; Discourse; Embodiment; Intersubjectivity; Lifeworld; Phenomenology; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; LANGUAGE; POLITICAL RELATIONS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 80053404706     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-092010-153345     Document Type: Article

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