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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... 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, without being ...
... 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 is often Preface xi.
... situation at hand. For the same reason, I repudiate objectivist notions of existence as adaptation or compliance. Evolutionary biology reminds us that there are 50 million species of life on earth, hence 50 million solutions to the ...
... situations in which they find themselves. At the same time, one is stunned by how easily a life can be lost–in a childhood without love, or in violent situations where people lack the resources to defend themselves–as in the case of the ...
... situation or do anything about it. For them the game of life has become a game of chance, ruled by contingency, though played according to fanciful, opportunistic or occult notions of how luck may be redistributed, fortunes improved ...
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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 |