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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... Freetown. The D.O. provided a Fiat lorry to bring me. I can remember leaving Kabala at exactly 4.30 to attend the call of the prime minister. We reached Freetown late at night, and I slept overnight in the lorry. Next morning I was ...
... Freetown to hire a lawyer and file an appeal against my conviction. Cyrus Rogers-Wright was willing to help me, but when I told S.B. what I planned to do he ordered me to drop the case. At times, really, I feel very bitter when S.B. ...
... Freetown, this internet report both disturbed me and aroused my curiosity. My flight from Brussels reached Freetown via Abidjan, just after nightfall, and I took the first available helicopter from the airport to the city. For some ...
... Freetown, when S.B. humiliated Balacun in front of the visitors sitting in the parlour. Balacun had just re-entered the room after carrying two buckets of hot water into S.B.'s bathroom. Convinced that Balacun had spent more time than ...
... Freetown. If S.B. had a contentious relationship with the police, Johns' report made it very clear that the police had their own bones to pick with S.B. Acting on intelligence reports from Kabala, Johns despatched police reinforcements ...
المحتوى
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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 |