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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... notions are what life is ostensively about for many people. Rather, my argument is against our tendency to ontologise such notions, and make them foundational to a theory of human being. This is why I reject the idea, so often ...
... notion of 'affordances'6 and Sartre's notion of 'exigences'. According to Sartre – and his view was shared by Merleau-Ponty (1962: 136–147) – most human action is xiv Preface.
... notion of miran makes this clear. Mirannu (pl.) refer both to material possessions–particularly those that contain and protect, such as a house, clothing, water vessels and cooking pots – as well as to personal attributes that give one ...
... notions of what constitutes their due, and Kuranko folktales, like folktales throughout the world, with their magical agencies, supernatural intercessories and miraculous transformations, attest to the vital role that wishful thinking ...
... notion of the 'natural standpoint' (1967: 73) and Schutz's observation that we take our world and worldview largely for-granted (1967: 74). The prevalently unreflective character of human existence covers both phylogenetic and cultural ...
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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 |