How Lifeworlds Work

Michael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted.
 
In How Lifeworlds Work, Jackson draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa to highlight the dynamic quality of human relationships and reinvigorate the study of kinship and ritual. How, he asks, do we manage the perpetual process of accommodation between social norms and personal emotions, impulses, and desires? How are these two dimensions of lived reality joined, and how are the dual imperatives of individual expression and collective viability managed? Drawing on the pragmatist tradition, psychology, and phenomenology, Jackson offers an unforgettable, beautifully written account of how we make, unmake, and remake, our lifeworlds. 

Michael Jackson si-a petrecut o mare parte din cariera elaborand conceptia sa bogata despre lumile vietii, exploatand experienta sa etnografica si personala pentru a intelege modul in care vietile noastre subiective si sociale se constituie reciproc. In Cum functioneaza vietile lumii, Jackson se bazeaza pe ani de munca etnografica pe teren in Africa de Vest pentru a evidentia calitatea dinamica a relatiilor umane si a revigora studiul rudeniei si ritualului.