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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... to ally themselves by the recognition of their diversities. Jean-Paul Sartre, 'Of Rats and Men', Foreword to André Gorz's The Traitor (1989:32–33). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This book owes much to conversations with Ghassan Hage.
... Ghassan Hage and Galina Lindquist in 2002, and to my students and colleagues at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, who have so patiently and generously listened to my evolving ideas and provided me with incisive ...
... Ghassan Hage (2003) calls 'societal hope' to even the most marginalised persons in the form of education, health care, jobs, job training, voting rights and freedom of speech. Like God for believers, society, for its citizens ...
... Ghassan Hage writes of the Palestianian suicide bombers. The 'surreal practice of throwing stones at the coloniser's tanks,' the courage to cop the rubber bullet, to face death in the streets, is a kind of preparation for suicide ...
... Ghassan Hage's elucidation of Bourdieu's use of these terms, and allude here to the work he has done, adapting Bourdieu's insights to his own ethnographic projects (1998, 2002). 12. Of unemployed and marginalised people, Bourdieu writes ...
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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 |