Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Phenomenology's Methodological Invitation -- Part I. The Body as Constitutive Horizon of Experience -- 1 Moods and Method: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty on Emotion and Understanding -- 2 Toward a Cultural Phenomenology of Body-World Relations -- 3 Sacred Suffering: A Phenomenological Anthropological Perspective -- 4 Being "Sita": Physical Affects in the North Indian Dance of Kathak -- 5 Beneath the Horizon: The Organic Body's Role in Athletic Experience -- 6 Unmeasured Music and Silence -- Part II. History and Temporality -- 7 Experiencing Self-Abstraction: Studio Production and Vocal Consciousness -- 8 Being-in-the-Covenant: Reflections on the Crisis of Historicism in North Malaita, Solomon Islands -- Part III. The Poetics and Politics of Phenomenological Ethnography -- 9 Seared with Reality: Phenomenology through Photography, in Nepal -- 10 Writing Affect, Love, and Desire into Ethnography -- 11 Senses of Magic: Anthropology, Art, and Christianity in the Vula'a Lifeworld -- 12 Neither Things in Themselves nor Things for Us Only: Anthropology, Phenomenology, and Poetry -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.