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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... metaphors with which we typically describe it. Quotidian existence is marked by ups (being high, feeling on top of things,) and downs (being blue, feeling down) – and often compared, in popular thought, to changes in the weather or ...
... metaphor for anyone who is in command of himself and working his utmost to do what is expected of him, to do his duty. But self-possession and morale may be undermined, sapped or lost.7 Just as a person's property can be stolen, a pot ...
... metaphor for authenticity and, by contrast, characterise conventional forms of intelligibility – ideology, theory, narrative – as reifications, falsifications and betrayals of the truth of 'pure experience'. Our task is not to ...
... metaphorical, anthropomorphic, practical and narrative. My aim is neither to rank these ways in which people act, speak and think, nor make special claims for any one (since all these modalities of thought and action may have useful ...
... metaphor for the limits of what it means to be human – an existential condition of 'fragility and dependence, in which the intentionality of the subject, his ability to act as a social agent or to control the conditions of existence is ...
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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 |