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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... argument is not against the meanings people find in having a cultural or national identity, or in being themselves, or in doing their duty – for such notions are what life is ostensively about for many people. Rather, my argument is ...
... argue that the meaning of human existence cannot be reduced to cultural imperatives any more than it can be reduced to natural forces such as instincts and appetites, does not mean that we re-centre our analysis on the human subject ...
... argue in chapter 6, however, the antinomian finds expression not only in formal events such as feasts and rituals ... argument is that it is at precisely these critical moments, when the expectations that spring from our habitus are no ...
... argument was that the police had a duty to serve, work for and obey senior parliamentarians. Understandably the police saw this as putting oneself above the law, and they complained of the 'ridicule and embarrassment' they had 12 ...
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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 |