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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... realities. Constantly referring human life to culture is no more edifying, in my view, than reducing it to nature or personhood. My argument is not against the meanings people find in having a cultural or national identity, or in being ...
... reality nor a matter of external reality' (1974: 113). Comparing culture with transitional phenomena and play, Winnicott goes on to argue that culture is a 'common pool... into which individuals and groups of people may contribute, and ...
... reality that make it appear less contingent, and 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 ...
... reality play in making everyday life endurable. Yet, as the perceived gap between haves and have-nots widens in today's world, experiences of frustration, resentment and exclusion are exacerbated, leading more and more people to explore ...
... reality has become impossibly wide–notably the tens of thousands of young men in Africa who have no work, no education, no benefactors, no future. The extent to which one yeilds to magical action and magical thought is a measure of 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 |