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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... action is less a product of intellectual deliberation and conscious choice than a matter of continual, intuitive, and opportunistic changes of course – a 'cybernetic' switching between alternatives that promise more or less satisfactory ...
... bears a family resemblance to James Gibson's notion of 'affordances'6 and Sartre's notion of 'exigences'. According to Sartre – and his view was shared by Merleau-Ponty (1962: 136–147) – most human action is xiv Preface.
... action is unreflective, which is to say we do not necessarily form any conscious idea of our intentions before we act. But this absence of conceptualisation does not imply that we are at the mercy of blind habits, or that our actions ...
... action that has the effect of directly nullifying, diminishing, belittling or erasing one's own being, or indirectly doing so by taking away properties that one regards as essential to and as extensions of the being of the other. The ...
... action not only to conserve the past but to initiate new possibilities (1958: 176–178). Bourdieu's emphasis on habitus as a 'quasi-perfect coincidence between objective tendencies and subjective expectations', producing 'a continuous ...
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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 |