Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology

This review explores the most significant dimensions and findings of phenomenological approaches in anthropology. We spell out the motives and implications inherent in such approaches, chronicle their historical dimensions and precursors, and address the ways in which they have contributed to analyt...

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Published in:Annual review of anthropology 2011-01, Vol.40 (1), p.87-102
Main Authors: Desjarlais, Robert, Jason Throop, C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Aging
Anthropological methodology
Anthropological research
Anthropological theory
Anthropology
Anthropology of Mind
Anthropology of religion
Cognitive problems, arts and sciences, folk traditions, folklore
Creativity
Cultural anthropology
Cultural studies
Death
Discourse
Dying
Embodiment
Empathy
Ethnography
Ethnology
Ethnopsychiatry. Ethnopsychoanalysis. Ethnopsychology
Existential anthropology
Illness
Illnesses
Intersubjectivity
Lifeworld
Linguistic anthropology
Material culture
Medical anthropology
Morality
Organizational dissolution
Organizational Research
Phenomenology
Political anthropology
Political Violence
Politics
Research methodology
Story telling
Storytelling
Subjectivity
Suffering
Time
Traditional sciences and medicine
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Summary:This review explores the most significant dimensions and findings of phenomenological approaches in anthropology. We spell out the motives and implications inherent in such approaches, chronicle their historical dimensions and precursors, and address the ways in which they have contributed to analytic perspectives employed in anthropology. This article canvasses phenomenologically oriented research in anthropology on a number of topics, including political relations and violence; language and discourse; neurophenomenology; emotion; embodiment and bodiliness; illness and healing; pain and suffering; aging, dying, and death; sensory perception and experience; subjectivity; intersubjectivity and sociality; empathy; morality; religious experience; art, aesthetics, and creativity; narrative and storytelling; time and temporality; and senses of place. We examine, and propose salient responses to, the main critiques of phenomenological approaches in anthropology, and we also take note of some of the most pressing and generative avenues of research and thought in phenomenologically oriented anthropology.
ISSN:0084-6570
1545-4290
DOI:10.1146/annurev-anthro-092010-153345