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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... Words Mundane Ritual Biotechnology and the Critique of Globalisation Familiar and Foreign Bodies The Prose of Suffering Whose Human Rights? Existential Imperatives Bibliography Index vii ix 15 3. 35 4. 53 5. 75 6. 93 7. 111 8. 127 9 ...
... words instantly transfigure her son's mood and vision. Suffused by 'an extraordinary joy', James feels as if the expedition is now bound to take place, and that the 'wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed ...
... word and deed we insert ourselves into the human world, and this insertion is like a second birth, in which we confirm and take upon ourselves the naked fact of our original physical appearance. This insertion is not forced upon us by ...
... word archein, 'to begin', 'to lead', and eventually 'to rule', indicates), to set something into motion (which is the original meaning of the Latin agere). (Arendt 1958: 176–177) Natality entails the perpetual reconstruction of one's ...
... words have become mere shibboleths. Indeed, rationality has become so thoroughly conflated with discourse concerning ... word that rationalists use to extol their own model of understanding and the interests it serves. That theoretical ...
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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 |