Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and EffectsBerghahn Books, 01/06/2005 - 252 من الصفحات Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they yet possess for creating viable forms of social life. |
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... Bourdieu argues 'unequally distributed' (2000: 241). However, inequality is not wholly politico-economic, as Amartya Sen has eloquently argued. 'You could be well off, without being well. You could be well, without being able to lead ...
... Bourdieu's later work provides us with three key concepts for analysing the struggle for Being: habitus, conatus and illusio.11 Habitus is Bourdieu's way of theorising the ways in which culture comes to be experienced as a kind of ...
... Bourdieu speaks of this as the 'paradox of doxa' – that the socialorder is seldom regarded as the product of human choice, but as an immutable natural order – determined by our genetic or ancestral past. Moreover, it is this reification ...
... Bourdieu captures in the term conatus. If one's habitus is destroyed – by war, enforced migration, imposed social change, bereavement, debilitating illness, racist humiliation, unemployment or lack of recognition – then the capacities ...
... (Bourdieu 1990a: 66–67, 1990b: 195, 1998: 3, 2000: 164–167, 208–216). Habitus as 'embodied history', as a 'durable way of being', an engrained 'disposition', implies the presence of the past in the present as the condition of the ...
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Chapter 3 VIOLENCE AND INTERSUBJECTIVE REASON | 35 |
AN ESSAY ON ANARCHY | 53 |
Chapter 5 WHATS IN A NAME? AN ESSAY ON THE POWER OF WORDS | 75 |
Chapter 6 MUNDANE RITUAL | 93 |
Chapter 7 BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE CRITIQUE OF GLOBALISATION | 111 |
Chapter 8 FAMILIAR AND FOREIGN BODIES | 127 |
Chapter 9 THE PROSE OF SUFFERING | 143 |
Chapter 10 WHOSE HUMAN RIGHTS? | 159 |
Chapter 11 EXISTENTIAL IMPERATIVES | 181 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 195 |
INDEX | 211 |