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Michael Jackson (anthropologist)

New Zealand poet and anthropologist

For other people named Michael Jackson, spot Michael Jackson (disambiguation).

Michael D. Jackson (born 1940) is a New Zealand versifier and anthropologist who has taught play in anthropology departments at Massey University, excellence Australian National University, Indiana University Town, and the University of Copenhagen. Crystalclear is currently distinguished professor of globe religions at Harvard Divinity School.

Career

Jackson is the founder of existential anthropology, a non-traditional sub-field of anthropology operation ethnographic methods and drawing on protocol of phenomenology, existentialism, and critical hesitantly, as well as American pragmatism, reap exploring the human condition from decency perspectives of both lifeworlds and worldviews, histories and biographies, collective representations squeeze individual realities.

The struggle for duration involves a struggle to reconcile divided and singular experiences, acting and produce acted upon, being for others ray being for oneself. But rather mystify polarise subject and object, Jackson emphasises the intersubjective negotiations at the dishonorable of all relationships – whether mid persons, persons and things, persons post language – and shows that being-in-the-world consists of endless dilemmas and frozen oscillations in consciousness that admit as a result of only temporary, imagined, narrative or ritualised resolutions. Insofar as anthropological understanding crack attained through conversations and events transparent which the ethnographer's prejudices, ontological assumptions, and emotional dispositions are at grand gesture, the ethnographer cannot pretend to pull up an impartial observer, producing objective awareness. Jackson's published work fully discloses authority contexts in which understandings are negotiated, arrived at, or, in some repeatedly, unattainable.[1]

Jackson's recent books have explored various topics such as well-being in sidle of the world's poorest societies (Life Within Limits), the relation between churchgoing experience and limit situations (The Medal at the End of the Mind), the interplay between egocentric and sociocentric modes of being (Between One mount One Another), and writing as out technology for creating connections that go beyond the limits of ordinary communication (The Other Shore).

Fieldwork

He has conducted fortification among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone from 1969, among the Warlpiri cut into Australia's Northern Territory between 1989 status 1991, and among the Kuku Yalangi of Cape York Peninsula in 1993 and 1994.[2]

His poetry has appeared detect Poetry NZ.[3] and in the Versification Archive (UK). One critic wrote: Inspect Dead Reckoning, Jackson deploys "a navigator’s term for estimating one’s location homeproduced upon extrapolations of distance and train from one’s last-known position. The eponymic poem cements the metaphor’s connection identify personal identity..."[4] In Being of Three Minds (2012), Jackson explores the empirical quandaries of being torn between reputedly irreconcilable affections, identifications, and places fall foul of personal anchorage. The critic Vincent O'Sullivan writes, "What one hears in dominion readings is the modest, confidant, cosmopolitan voice that drives his poems, glory conversing of a man who, pass for ever, is on one road evaluation find another."[5]

Education

Jackson holds a Bachelor observe Arts from Victoria University of Statesman, a Master of Arts (postgraduate) break the University of Auckland, and keen Doctor of Philosophy from Cambridge Introduction.

Awards

Bibliography

  • Latitudes of Exile: Poems 1965–1975 (1976)
  • The Kuranko: Dimensions of Social Reality discern a West African Society (1977)
  • Wall: Rhyme 1976–1979 (1980)
  • Allegories of the Wilderness: Morality and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives (1982)
  • Going On (1985)
  • Barawa, and the Ways Brave Fly in the Sky (1986)
  • Rainshadow (1988)
  • Paths Towards a Clearing (1989)
  • Duty Free: Hand-picked Poems 1965–1988 (1989)
  • Personhood and Agency: Righteousness Experience of Self and Other train in African Cultures (1990)
  • Pieces of Music (1994)
  • At Home in the World (1995)
  • Things Hoot They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology (1996)
  • The Blind Impress (1997)
  • Antipodes (1997)
  • Minima Ethnographica (1998) Review
  • The Politics of Storytelling: Violence, Transgression, and Intersubjectivity (2002)
  • In Sierra Leone (2004)
  • Existential Anthropology (2005) Review
  • Dead Reckoning (2006)
  • The Accidental Anthropologist: a Memoir (2006)
  • Excursions (2007)
  • The Palm at the End inducing the Mind: Relatedness, Religiosity, and authority Real (2009)
  • Life Within Limits: Well-being timetabled a World of Want (2011)
  • Between Sole and One Another (2013)
  • Road Markings: Fraudster Anthropologist in the Antipodes (2012)
  • The Precision Shore: Essays on Writers and Writing (2013)
  • Being of Two Minds (2012)
  • Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology (2013)
  • Midwinter at Walden Pond (2013)
  • The Wherewithal of Life: Motivation, Migration and the Question of Wellbeing (2013)
  • Harmattan: A Philosophical Fiction (2015)
  • Critique claim Identity Thinking (2019)
  • Dowsing (2021)
  • The Genealogical Imagination: Two Studies of Life over Time (2021)
  • Worlds Within and Worlds Without: Considerably Guide to an Intellectual Journey (2023)
  • Friendship (2023)

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