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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... young men from his home village of Firawa to prospect for diamonds. When I saw Noah the previous year he had been demoralised and adrift. Now, full of optimism and bonhomie, he joked with me about striking it rich. Our last conversation ...
... young brother, the marginality of the last-born, the influence of one's mother in mediating the blessings of patrilineal forebears – and refers constantly to the historical and economic circumstances of life in a country characterised ...
... young, who encounter it for the first time, and why it is 'never what it was' in the jaded view of the old, who have seen it all before. A corollory of Arendt's notion of natality is Bakhtin's notion of the carnivalesque – the 'second ...
... the tens of thousands of young men in Africa who have no work, no education, no benefactors, no future. The extent to which one yeilds to magical action and magical thought is a measure of a society's failure to provide a Preface xxiii.
... young men and women who demand equality, inclusion and respectin terms of modernist conceptions of social justice. S.B. Marah and Alhaji Balansama represent the old order, Ali and the recently elected Diang Chief, also educated in the ...
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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 |