Phenomenology in Anthropology

Kalpana Ram is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University and Director of the India Research Centre. Her books include Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and Its Provocations of the Modern.Christopher Houston is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University. His books include Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves (IUP, 2008).

• Introduction: Phenomenology's Methodological Invitation Kalpana Ram and Christopher Houston1. Moods and Method: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on Emotion and Understanding Kalpana Ram2. Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Body-World Relations Thomas J. Csordas3. Sacred Suffering: A Phenomenological Anthropological Perspective C. Jason Throop4. Being 'Sita': Physical Affects in the North Indian Dance of kathak Monica Dalidowicz5. Beneath the Horizon: The Organic Body's Role in Athletic Experience Greg Downey6. Unmeasured Music and Silence Ian Bedford7. Experiencing Self-Abstraction: Studio Production and Vocal Consciousness Daniel Fisher8. Being-in-the-Covenant: Reflections on the Crisis of Historicism in North Malaita, Solomon Islands Jaap Timmer9. Seared with Reality: Phenomenology through Photography, in Nepal Robert Desjarlais10. Writing Affect, Love and Desire into Ethnography L.L. Wynn11. Senses of Magic: Anthropology, Art, and Christianity in the Vula'a Lifeworld Deborah Van Heekeren12. Neither Things in Themselves nor Only for Someone: Anthropology, Phenomenology and Poetry Christopher HoustonAfterword Michael Jackson

"[R]eaders of this volume are presented with a strong case for the relevance of a particular (and major) strand within the phenomenological tradition to anthropology, along with several lucid demonstrations of how that strand can be used within anthropological analyses... [P]rovides a new and coherent orientation to what has been happening in the field." -Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff University