Michael D. Jackson




Michael D. Jackson

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place of birth
New Zealand

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Science, Nonfiction


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Michael D. Jackson (born 1940) is a post-modern New Zealand anthropologist who has taught in the anthropology departments at the University of Copenhagen and Indiana University and is currently a professor of world religions at Harvard Divinity School. He holds a BA from Victoria University of Wellington, an MA from the University of Auckland and a PhD from Cambridge University.

Jackson is the founder of existential/phenomenological anthropology, a sub-field of anthropology using ethnographical fieldwork as well as existential theories of being in order to explore modes of being and interpersonal relationships as they exist in various cultural settings throughout the world. In this way he creates an interdisciplinary approach tha...more




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Minima Ethnographica: Intersub... Minima Ethnographica: Intersubjectivity and the Anthropological Project
by Michael D. Jackson
avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 1998
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Things As They Are: New Direct... Things As They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology
by Michael D. Jackson
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1996
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Paths Toward a Clearing: Radic... Paths Toward a Clearing: Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Inquiry
by Michael D. Jackson
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1989
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Dead Reckoning Dead Reckoning
by Michael D. Jackson
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2006
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The Number and Timing of Paleo... The Number and Timing of Paleoseismic Events on the Nephi and Levan Segments, Wasatch Fault Zone, Utah
by Michael D. Jackson
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1991
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Existential Anthropology: Even... Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, And Effects
by Michael D. Jackson
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Allegories of the Wilderness:... Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives
by Michael D. Jackson
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1982
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