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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... things,) and downs (being blue, feeling down) – and often compared, in popular thought, to changes in the weather or ... thing, but a 'more or less' question (Hage 2003: 16). Being is always what Jaspers calls 'potential being' (1967: 63 ...
... things they feel they have been unjustly denied. To understand such violence intersubjectively, one must remember that the principle of reciprocity operates both at the level of being and of having, for being is in all societies ...
... things as respect, food, help and protection that will be returned in equal measure at some later date. At the same time 'real', symbolic, and fantastic calculations enter into people's notions of what constitutes their due, and Kuranko ...
... thing happened in 1964, when S.B. decided to campaign for the Paramount Chieftaincy in the amalgamated chiefdom of Sa Nieni. I had to leave school to help him, but this time the principal did not allow me to return. 'At the time of the ...
... things, that he had urged Noah to finish his secondary schooling, but Noah himself had decided against this; he had also secured Noah his present job in Kono. But it is not objective truth I am concerned with here, but Noah's truth ...
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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 |