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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... becomes in presentia – disclosed, drawn out, brought forth, given presence or embodied.5 Object-relations theory is particularly helpful in pursuing this mode of inquiry. Culture, writes D.W. Winnicott, is 'in fact neither a matter of ...
... become a Justice of the Peace. It was like old times – his casuistry and independence of mind, his confident dismissal of my dissenting views, his wry humour. For several days after hearing of Noah's death, I could not settle to work ...
... become his role model when his father died. After his father's death in 1957, 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 ...
... become a Big Man. In his struggle for recognition – a struggle to be 'someone' rather than a nonentity – Noah at first seeks access to secular power. But frustrated in his attempts to become a man of means, Noah is increasingly ...
... 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 downstairs parlour at S.B.'s house in Freeetown, the daylight fading ...
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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 |