Introduction
Anthropology and the Existential Turn ........................... 1
Michael Jackson and Albert Piette
Chapter 1 Conversion and Convertibility in Northern
Mozambique .......................................... 30
Devaka Premawardhana
Chapter 2 Both/And ............................................ 58
Michael Lambek
Chapter 3 Reading Bruno Latour in Bahia: Or, How to
Approach The "Great, Blooming, Buzzing Confusion"
of Life and Being Without Going Mad ................. 84
Mattijs van de Port
Chapter 4 The Station Hustle: Ghanaian Migration Brokerage
in a Disjointed World .............................. 104
Hans Lucht
Chapter 5 Mobility and Immobility in the Life of an Amputee .. 125
Sónia Silva
Chapter 6 Existential Aporias and the Precariousness of
Being .............................................. 155
Michael Jackson
Chapter 7 Existence, Minimality, and Believing ............... 178
Albert Piette
Chapter 8 Considering Human Existence: An Existential
Reading of Michael Jackson and Albert Piette ....... 214
Laurent Denizeau
Notes on Contributors ......................................... 237
Index ......................................................... 243
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