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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... sense that I did not altogether belong in the place where I was raised, and by a growing conviction that in other places, living another life, I might make good what I felt I lacked and somehow come into my own. The first anthropology ...
... sense of wellbeing is susceptible to constant change is shown by the way that an affectionate glance, a gesture of recognition or concern, the company of close friends, or an unexpected gift can make one's day, while a cutting remark, a ...
... sense of the absurd situation in which he finds himself. Defined in this way, existentialism seems to offer nothing to anthropologists whose work takes us into lifeworlds where individuality is often played down, where a person's fate ...
... sense of the critical nature of Being. The novel begins with a mother's promise to her six year-old son, that if the weather is fine tomorrow, and he gets up 'with the lark', the family will go on an excursion to the Lighthouse. Mrs ...
... sense of self-possession, presence and substantiality of being – such as forceful speech, physical skill and social adroitness. But miran, in both senses of the term – material possession and personal disposition – is never a fixed ...
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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 |