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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... asking me to come and campaign for him. I asked the principal, who said no, so I sent S.B. a telegram saying I could not join him. S.B. then sent a second telegram, ordering me to come. The same thing happened in 1964, when S.B. decided ...
... asked if I could help him find a cure for his sickness. My cousin Dr Osayon Kamara was then at the Kabala hospital. So I told Babande to come to Kabala, and promised I would take him to my cousin. What I did not know was that Babande ...
... asked Balacun to give me his version of what had happened in Kabala. That the police had done nothing to prevent the attack on S.B's house, even after Balacun, S.B., and others had phoned them for help, was, in Balacun's opinion ...
... asked. 'I'll never work with him,' S.B. said, despite the President's decree that Ali must apologise to S.B. or the staff of chieftancy would not be handed over to him. S.B. considered this idea 'childish and insulting' and was annoyed ...
... asked Zack if he remembered Gordon Chapman, the son of Colin Chapman who headed the company that owned The Granites' leases in the 1930s when Zack worked there. Apparently Gordon Chapman was dying of cancer in Darwin. Zack seemed not to ...
المحتوى
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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 |