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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... everyone in equal measure, it would be facile to reduce the meaning of a person's existence to either such external circumstances or to some inner essence. The struggle for being may be understood cybernetically – not x Preface.
... 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 being is symbolically expressed, the question of being is universal ...
... means, first, that we possess consciousness of ourselves and of our world – a consciousness that is, however, unsettled and fluid, oscillating constantly between speech and silence, solitude and sociality, agitation and calm ...
... meaning of human existence cannot be reduced to cultural imperatives any more than it can be reduced to natural forces ... means, for Winnicott, that culture is not some kind of ready-made, omnipresent composite of habits, meanings and ...
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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 |