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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... live those circumstances in a variety of ways.1 Obviously, there is double determination involved here. For while it is true that our capacity for being is constrained by external conditions and engrained habits, it is equally true that ...
... live, but that we are involved in a constant struggle to sustain and augment our being in relation to the being of others, as well as the nonbeing of the physical and material world, and the ultimate extinction of being that is death ...
... live the world as if it were our own, (Jackson 1977: 242, 1998: 27–28). The world is thus something we do not simply live and reproduce in passivity, but actually produce and transform through praxis, creating a sense that life is worth ...
... in which inequality and distinction are determined 'horizontally' –in the prejudices, snobberies and discriminatory gestures with which people stigmatise, ostracise and denigrate others in their everyday lives, xxiv Preface.
... lives, or the lives of others, in seeking the symbolic capital or symbolic power that can no longer be reasonably expected from the society in which they find themselves condemned to live. Thus Ghassan Hage writes of the Palestianian ...
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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 |