Theory and Methodology in Existential Anthropology. Translated by Matthew Cunningham
Description
This book is an anthropology book, not a social and cultural anthropology book, but an existential anthropology book. It presents a critique of the theories and methods of the social sciences, which Albert Piette reproaches for side-stepping human beings, their modes of being and more generally the fact of existing. The book also offers an original combination of methods for exploring the details of existence: the particularities of each person in a group, the succession of situations in a day, and the subtlety of moments of presence. It gives rise to new theoretical propositions on what constitutes the specificity of human existence and social life.
Overview
Introduction
Part One: Wholes and Particularities
I. A critique of the operation of the social sciences: 1. The »good« sociological object – 2. Cultural ethnography and interactional ethnography
II. Leftovers of details: a photographic experiment
III. What is the minor mode of the reality?
Part Two: Existence and Days
I. Displacement and continuity
II. Plurality, laterality, singularity
III. Existential anthropology: from sociology to nonsociology
Part Three: Presences and Intensities
I. »Entering into« presence
II. Reposity chart and intensitometry
III. Mitigated humans: what can be concluded?
IV. Phenomenographic paths for analyzing presence
Conclusion
References