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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... oneself, at other times as a search for belonging. At times it consists in working to transform the world into which one is thrown into a world one has a hand in making – to strike a balance between being an actor and being acted upon ...
... oneself but to others. But however being is symbolically expressed, the question of being is universal, and constitutes a starting-point in our attempt to explore human lifeworlds as the sites of a perennial struggle for existence ...
... oneself go' (nyere bila). Ideally, a balance is struck in which everyone's voice, presence, and property is accorded due recognition in relation to his or her role, age and gender. But some people assert themselves beyond their due ...
... oneself, controlling the future and generating hope. What Galina Lindquist calls the 'magic of business' defines a libidinal or occult economy, characterised less by rational calculation than by passions. As in Sartre's work on magical ...
... had a duty to serve, work for and obey senior parliamentarians. Understandably the police saw this as putting oneself above the law, and they complained of the 'ridicule and embarrassment' they had 12 Existential Anthropology.
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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 |