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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... his father's ancestral blessings were bound to smooth his path through life. But as I remembered the various stories Noah had told me about himself, I began to realise that his entire life had been a search for a Preface xvii.
... told the prime minister I had arrived. This could only mean, I thought, that I had been the subject of some discussion. The prime minister told me that he'd heard many reports about my activities. But his displeasure was not the real ...
... told Babande to come to Kabala, and promised I would take him to my cousin. What I did not know was that Babande was a juju man. The APC people in Kabala knew this, and when they found out that I had sponsored Babande's trip from Koba ...
... and interpretive accounts – and the ways these discursive responses become conditions of the. Notes for this section can be found on page 14. 1. One informant, present at the court gbare, told me Chapter 1. THE COURSE OF AN EVENT.
... told the Sierra Leone web. 'Everybody knows that. I have been supporting somebody who has been good to me. I want to repay him in his own coin. Is that a crime?' S.B. Marah decried the political violence directed against him because of ...
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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 |