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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... mind which allows us to treat the beliefs and values of another man from his point of view. (1922:518) Without a doubt, this tension between the parochial world that shaped me early on, and the lifeworlds to which I gravitated in an ...
... mind and nature. The existential anthropology I want to develop here refuses, however, to reduce existence to any one such category term,2 or ground it in either subjective or objective realities. Constantly referring human life to ...
... mind, his confident dismissal of my dissenting views, his wry humour. For several days after hearing of Noah's death, I could not settle to work. Walking the snow-filled streets of Uppsala, my mind was filled with random recollections ...
... mind in which I found Noah in early 2002, and this forms of the basis of chapter 2 in this work, in which I explore Aboriginal experiences of marginalisation in contemporary Australia. Bourdieu's argument is that it is at precisely ...
... mind, in conceptual knowledge, or in political and economic infrastructures, local or global. This is not because mind, knowledge, power, or wealth play no part in shaping human experience, but because theoretical reason has so often ...
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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 |