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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... identity. This new disturbance, this modest but stubborn attempt to communicate across the incommunicable, is not the stale and always somewhat stupid desire for an inert and already realized universal; this is what I should prefer to ...
... identity, a fulfilling job, a family and friends, and to do well in life–it is important to note that being is never an 'either/or' thing, but a 'more or less' question (Hage 2003: 16). Being is always what Jaspers calls 'potential ...
... identity, the pure reproduction of such as already was there' (Buck Morss 1977: 54, cf. Adorno 1973:5, Sartre 1968: 91–99). To escape the reifying and dulling effects of generalisation, some anthropologists have focused on the ...
... identity is defined less in being than in belonging, where ultimate meaning is associated with God, spirits and the ancestors, where death is never final, and where one's main responsibility is not to oneself but to others. But however ...
... identity as family and friends. As Simon Schama wrote on the first anniversary of the event, 'a gaping,. Notes for this section can be found on page 32. 1. Existential analysis distinguishes three modes of being-in-the-world: eigenwelt ...
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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 |