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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... called 'the subjective in-between' (1958: 183) and on that which comes into being in this intermediate space of human interest and interaction. Bypassing both the individual subject and culture as sui generis phenomena, we seek to ...
... called Babande in the village of Koba, who 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 ...
... called an 'existential imperative' to convert givenness into choice, and live the world as if it were our own, (Jackson 1977: 242, 1998: 27–28). The world is thus something we do not simply live and reproduce in passivity, but actually ...
... called promotions profoundly destabilized the urban economy. Promising and initially delivering spectacular profits for minimal investment within a very few weeks, these money schemes attracted the whole of the Kinshasa population ...
... called 'moments of being'14when we are afforded glimpses into what is at stake for the actors, and how they experience the social field in which they find themselves. When I did fieldwork on home and belonging in Central Preface xxv.
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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 |