Jackson, M. Existential Anthropology (translated by M. A. Sultanova)

Abstract: When working on his version of existential anthropology, Australian anthropologist Michael Jackson tries to combine anthropological research methods with the existentialism theory. He believes such an approach will allow to better understand human. Besides theoretical concepts, he also describes many examples from life of aborigines in Africa and Australia such as war, poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and etc. He analyzes their emotions and feelings about it from the point of view of anthropology. At the same time, Jackson looks at it from the humanistic point of view and with great compassion he describes their difficult life which makes those people see their recovery in occultism and sometimes even turn them into suicide bombers.

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