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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... person's situation, but the very wherewithal for being is, as Bourdieu argues 'unequally distributed' (2000: 241). However, inequality is not wholly politico-economic, as Amartya Sen has eloquently argued. 'You could be well off ...
... persons (Jackson 1998:18–19). Accordingly, in this work I seek to extend Sartre's insight that our humanness is the outcome of a dynamic relationship between circumstances over which we have little ... person's fate is often Preface xi.
... person's fate is often decided by forces outside his comprehension and control, where identity is defined less in being than in belonging, where ultimate meaning is associated with God, spirits and the ancestors, where death is never ...
... person's capacities and environmental conditions, resulting in 'the impossibility of making the given into the means to some kind of end worth living for – in perhaps having to abandon all other goals and values in order to maintain the ...
... person's miran may be bolstered by fetishes that symbolically enclose, contain and protect the vital spaces that define his or her being–body, house, village, chiefdom – in exactly the same way that in a consumer society material ...
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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 |