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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... Noah B. Marah. Several chapters of this book were drafted during my tenure of a Guest Professorship at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, University of Uppsala, in February–March 2003 where Sverker Finnström, Mikael ...
... Noah Marah, in Sierra Leone on 29 January 2003. I had just arrived in Sweden after several weeks in Sierra Leone, and had seen Noah only a few days before. After many vicissitudes, he seemed to be on the threshold of a new beginning ...
... Noah lived with Sewa for a while. He once described this period as one of domestic servitude. Sweeping, cleaning, fetching wood and water. Virtual slavery. 'When the 1957 elections came round,' Noah said, 'my younger [half-] brother ...
... Noah chronicled, pointing out, among other things, that he had urged Noah to finish his secondary schooling, but Noah himself had decided against this; he had also secured Noah his present job in Kono. But it is not objective truth I am ...
... Noah was when he was arrested and charged with sorcery. Why not become the person that one is accused of being, and turn a stigmatising identification to one's own advantage? During our last conversation, sitting together in 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 |