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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... S.B. Marah, Rose Marah and 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 ...
... Marah stoned the home of parliamentary leader S.B. Marah, whom they accused of supporting Alhaji Balansama Marah, Ali Marah's principal opponent. Glass was broken from the windows, but S.B. Marah was not injured. The mob also attempted ...
... S.B. threw his support behind him. Rose then spoke of S.B.'s second error of judgement. Apparently Ali had claimed ... Marah, a candidate for Sengbe Chiefdom PC election and others were coming to attack my person and burn down my house ...
... S.B.'s helpers] to inform the police and tell them that I needed their ... Marah's place, where a big crowd had gathered singing in Kuranko that Ali ... S.B. concluded his report by listing his material losses – Indian mango trees and ...
... 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. ... Marah, was never a strong chief or father,' Noah said, and added that Chief ...
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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 |