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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... ourselves if we never leave the narrow confinement of the customs, beliefs and prejudices into which every man is born. Nothing can teach us a better lesson in this matter of ultimate importance than the habit of mind which allows us to ...
... ourselves and of our world – a consciousness that is, however, unsettled and fluid, oscillating constantly between speech and silence, solitude and sociality, agitation and calm, aimlessness and purposefulness, reflection and habit, joy ...
... ourselves. It therefore bears a family resemblance to James Gibson's 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 ...
... ourselves less insignificant. A theory, as Michael Oakeshott reminds us, is like a recipe. It is not 'an independently generated beginning from which cooking can spring; it is nothing more than an abstract of somebody's knowledge of how ...
... ourselves into the human world, and this insertion is like a second birth, in which we confirm and take upon ourselves the naked fact of our original physical appearance. This insertion is not forced upon us by necessity, like labor ...
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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 |