Existence in the Details: Theory and Methodology in Existential Anthropology

Albert Piette (1)

1 LESC - Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative

This book is an anthropology book, not a social and cultural anthropology book, but an existential anthropology book. It presents a critique of the theories and methods of the social sciences, which Albert Piette reproaches for side-stepping human beings, their modes of being and more generally the fact of existing. The book also offers an original combination of methods for exploring the details of existence: the particularities of each person in a group, the succession of situations in a day, and the subtlety of moments of presence. It gives rise to new theoretical propositions on what constitutes the specificity of human existence and social life.This book is an anthropology book, not a social and cultural anthropology book, but an existential anthropology book. It presents a critique of the theories and methods of the social sciences, which Albert Piette reproaches for side-stepping human beings, their modes of being and more generally the fact of existing. The book also offers an original combination of methods for exploring the details of existence: the particularities of each person in a group, the succession of situations in a day, and the subtlety of moments of presence. It gives rise to new theoretical propositions on what constitutes the specificity of human existence and social life.

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Sociologie

Albert Piette. Existence in the Details: Theory and Methodology in Existential Anthropology. Duncker & Humblot, 2015, 978-3-428-14677-2. ⟨hal-01610304⟩