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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... Object-relations theory is particularly helpful in pursuing this mode of inquiry. Culture, writes D.W. Winnicott, is 'in fact neither a matter of inner psychic reality nor a matter of external reality' (1974: 113). Comparing culture ...
... object is to understand, through empirical means and expedient comparisons, the eventualities, exigencies and experiences of social Being. To speak of experience is not to constitute this Being solipsistically, but simply acknowledge ...
... vital is at play and at risk, when something memorable or momentous is undergone, and where questions of right and wrongful conduct are felt to be matters of life and death. Consonant with phenomenology, my object is to Preface xxix.
... object is to enable us to gain 'a close and detailed appreciation of what actually presents itself' rather than simply recognise 'the large outline which a general theory imposes upon events' (Oakeshott 1991:6). Notes. 1. As Sartre notes ...
... object but in general of being an object; that is, of recognising myself in this degraded, fixed, and dependent being which I am for the other' (1956: 288, emphasis in text). In June 1990, my wife and I were returning to Lajamanu, a ...
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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 |