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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... logic then comes into play, based on the principle of reciprocity, according to which one has the right to counter in kind any action that has the effect of directly nullifying, diminishing, belittling or erasing one's own being, or ...
Events, Exigencies, and Effects Michael Jackson. reveals the kinship between the social logic of partnership and the abstract calculus of retaliation. Since miranblurs any hard-and-fast distinction between havingand being, it can be ...
... logic of the imagination loses touch with the logic of social practice, desperatefantasies and actions are born.12This is the subject of chapter 3, where I explore reciprocity and the imaginary of social violence. Consider the case of ...
... logic of exchange in the Trobriands, social structure in Zululand, lineage relations in a Ndembu vicinage, sacred power among the Nambicuara, fate and freewill among the Tallensi, and status relationships in Bali. But is this all that ...
... logic that is not the logic of logicians (Bourdieu 1990a: 86, 2000: 20), and requires that 'we form a new idea of reason' (Merleau-Ponty 1964: 3) – 'a meaning before logic' (Merleau-Ponty 1968: 12–13). Reason and Reasons for Being In ...
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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 |