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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... relation to the being of others, as well as the nonbeing of the physical and material world, and the ultimate ... relations theory is particularly helpful in pursuing this mode of inquiry. Culture, writes D.W. Winnicott, is 'in ...
... relation to the given potentialities of our environment. Alienation signifies a radical rupture of this relationship between a person's capacities and environmental conditions, resulting in 'the impossibility of making the given into ...
... relation to his or her role, age and gender. But some people assert themselves beyond their due station – as in the case of a Big Man who exploits his position to take advantage of an inferior, a senior co-wife who abuses her junior ...
... relations in a Ndembu vicinage, sacred power among the Nambicuara, fate and freewill among the Tallensi, and status relationships in Bali. But is this all that was at stake for the actors involved? Were these events nothing more than ...
... relations with others, it is grasped only within ourselves.17 In seeking to elucidate the rationales and reasons for being that are embedded and embodied in the various vernacular idioms, concepts, gestures, actions and imaginings that ...
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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 |