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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... Human Rights? Existential Imperatives Bibliography Index vii ix 15 3. 35 4. 53 5. 75 6. 93 7. 111 8. 127 9. 143 159 181 195 211 ... for several decades now our world has been changing. CONTENTS.
... humans and machines; instances of ritualisation and the magical use of language in everyday life; episodes of violence and human rights violations; case studies of how people deal with their own suffering and the suffering of others ...
... human rights, occasioned by Noah's participation in a training course to 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 ...
... human beings create viable lives – emotional, bodily, magical, metaphorical ... rights in chapters 9 and 10. My task is to describe an existential ... human existence is seldom a matter solely of ourselves, but of our relations with ...
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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 |