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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... father declares that the weather won't be fine, and James's mood changes instantaneously to despair and anger. Had there been an axe handy, a poker, or any weapon that would have gashed a hole in his father's breast and killed him ...
... and fantasies that unfold when people invest in a world that gives nothing in return – as when James' longing for the Lighthouse is denied by his insensitive father, or when West African youths take up arms Preface xv.
Events, Exigencies, and Effects Michael Jackson. insensitive father, or when West African youths take up arms to seize the things they feel they have been unjustly denied. To understand such violence intersubjectively, one must remember ...
... father's ancestral blessings were bound to smooth his path through life. But as I remembered the various stories Noah had told me about himself, I began to realise that his entire life had been a search for a Preface xvii.
... 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. 'When the 1957 elections came ...
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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 |