Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
“Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
“Yet when the denial becomes so complete that we live under what amounts to a tyranny of not seeing and not speaking the existential… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do. — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
