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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... feeling on top of things,) and downs (being blue, feeling down) – and often compared, in popular thought, to changes in the weather or market oscillations between profit and loss. Allusions are also made to fullness (being full of life) ...
... feels as if the expedition is now bound to take place, and that the 'wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed' is, 'after a night's darkness and a day's sail, within touch.' This joy fringes everything he now ...
... feel they have been unjustly denied. To understand such violence intersubjectively, one must remember that the principle of reciprocity operates both at the level of being and of having, for being is in all societies invested in and ...
... feel very bitter when S.B. tells me I am not serious. People who really know him blame him for what I am. In fact, some people feel I would have been in a better position and been a better person had he not tampered with my destiny. But ...
... feel that life itself no longer has any meaning, and is not worth living. This was the demoralised frame of mind in which I found Noah in early 2002, and this forms of the basis of chapter 2 in this work, in which I explore Aboriginal ...
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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 |