In this anthology a group of ethnologists and anthropologists demonstrate creative ways of relating phenomenology to the study of culture. A detailed overview of how perspectives like being and life-world can be applied to studies of everyday life as well as a historical background of phenomenology are presented, showing how culture can be understood more from how it happens than what it is.

• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Being There
  • An Introduction
  • Doing Phenomenology
  • Being There
  • Practically Speaking
  • Ethnographic Variety
  • Looking Back
  • Being Re-inspired
  • Being Implicated
  • Including Yourself
  • Defending Vagueness
  • In the Life-World
  • Making Use of Culture
  • Dwelling
  • Using Tools
  • Notes
  • References
• Bodily Experiences and Community-Creating Implications of Transnational Travel
  • Methodological Concerns
  • A Personal Memory
  • Limits and Constrictions, Abstract and Concrete
  • Bodily Experiences and Other Insights
  • Borders and Communities
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
• The Differential Intensities of Social Reality - Migration, Participation and Guilt
  • Introduction
  • Lebanese News and News about Lebanon
  • Strategies of Intensification
  • Migration, Guilt and the State of the Debt – Towards a Moral Economy of Social Belonging
  • Notes
  • References
• The Politics of Reconciliation - Reflections on Postwar Sierra Leone
  • Fina Kamara’s Story
  • Notes
  • References
• Stories of Strangers Around the Fire
  • Notes
  • References
• When Theme Parks Happen
  • Demanding Arenas for Cultural Production
  • Phenomenological Entrance to the Theme Park
  • First Phase – Full of Expectations
  • The Second Phase – The Shattering of Illusions
  • Third Phase – The Will and Ability to Imagine
  • Notes
  • References
• The Sensory Experience of Doing Fieldwork in an ‘Other’ Place
  • The Problem with Fieldwork
  • Finding My Way
  • Imaginative Empathy
  • Understanding Meanings
  • Was It Worth It?
  • A Fieldwork of Perceptions?
  • Notes
  • References
• Between History and Material Culture - On European Regionalism and the Potentials of Poetic Analysis
  • ‘They Breathe This Air’
  • EU-Identities
  • European Ethnology
  • Localising culture and criticising the local.
  • Place and Material Culture
  • The Poetics of Istrian Landscapes
  • When Places Happen
  • Notes
  • References
• Contributors