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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... police came to my house that same night and arrested me. I was charged with sorcery. But the case against me failed, and I was discharged. But District Officer Gorvie, and the then Paramount Chief Baruwa Mansaray, decided I should be ...
... police officer on point duty. Although acquitted, S.B. had, it seemed, subsequently bragged about treating the officer as he deserved. I have said that what matters most is not deciding whether an account of an event is true or false ...
... police and tell them that I needed their protection. After fifteen minutes they came to report that the police said they were coming. It took an hour for the police to arrive. From my verandah, I saw a police Land Rover drive toward Ali ...
Events, Exigencies, and Effects Michael Jackson. sioner of Police, North) and Chief Police Officer Mustapha that they had seen everything that had been done to me in their presence.' Since numerous visitors from Kabala were coming and ...
... police station. The four policemen there said they could not offer him security, and advised him to go to UNAMSIL headquarters. It was there that small S.B. listened in on the radio-telephone conversation between the Bangladeshi field ...
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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 |