Examples are drawn from the author's own research on issues such as violence, religion, health, and race; from classic and contemporary anthropological research; and from the works of some of the most innovative philosophers of the twentieth century. This study actually does phenomenology instead of merely arguing for its necessity and will appeal to both social scientists and philosophers.
JAMES A. AHO is Professor of Sociology at Idaho State University in Pocatello, where he has taught since 1969. He is the author of five books, including Religious Mythology and the Art of War (Greenwood, 1981) and This Thing of Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy (1994).