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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... S.B. added, and he described how he had been spotted by Ali's boys while buying petrol at a Kabala garage. 'Look at the wutètè (many) boys coming, those S.B. Marah boys.' Small S.B. jumped into his Suzuki four-wheel drive and drove ...
... S.B. Marah's house, he went immediately to the scene. 'I saw over three hundred people armed with sticks, stones and branches shouting at the top of their voices, demanding the 'head' of Hon. S.B. Marah and the chieftaincy 'staff'. The ...
... Marah. 'I am grateful to you for listening to me, because I have been made the culprit in this business. People have given you the wrong picture, Keith.' In the days that followed, S.B. urged whoever had been witness to the events in ...
... S.B. confessed that he was mystified as to why the President should make this decision. In any event, a few days ... Marah, he abruptly told the new chief 'get out of my sight'. Events and Aftereffects Events quickly and imperceptibly blur ...
... S.B.'s behaviour. This conflict of wills – between constitutional and civil ... S.B.'s reasons for supporting Alhaji Balansama (both S.B. and the SLPP were ... Marah and Alhaji Balansama represent the old order, Ali and the recently ...
المحتوى
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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 |