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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... symbolic motifs–the need to be recognised, healthy, loved, happy, or free, to have security, wealth, an identity, a fulfilling job, a family and friends, and to do well in life–it is important to note that being is never an 'either/or ...
... symbolically expressed, the question of being is universal, and constitutes a starting-point in our attempt to explore human lifeworlds as the sites of a perennial struggle for existence – theorising this as a dynamic relationship ...
... symbolically enclose, contain and protect the vital spaces that define his or her being–body, house, village, chiefdom – in exactly the same way that in a consumer society material possessions bolster and define a person's sense of ...
... symbolic, and fantastic calculations enter into people's notions of what constitutes their due, and Kuranko folktales, like folktales throughout the world, with their magical agencies, supernatural intercessories and miraculous ...
... symbolically compensating for one's sense of exclusion and insignificance. Perhaps the turning point for Noah was when he was arrested and charged with sorcery. Why not become the person that one is accused of being, and turn 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 |