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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... death is never final, and where one's main responsibility is not to oneself but to others. But however being is symbolically expressed, the question of being is universal, and constitutes a starting-point in our attempt to explore human ...
... death. The Precariousness of Presence4 To 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 ...
... death of my friend and onetime field assistant, Noah Marah, in Sierra Leone on 29 January 2003. I had just arrived in Sweden after several weeks in Sierra Leone, and had seen Noah only a few days before. After many vicissitudes, he ...
... 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. 'When the 1957 elections came round,' Noah said, 'my younger ...
... death, are provided by Hannah Arendt's notion of the vita activa as holding the perennial possibility of 'second birth'. With word and deed we insert ourselves into the human world, and this insertion is like a second birth, in which we ...
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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 |