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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... feel for the game, and all those qualities that convince us that it is worth our while to play the game (Bourdieu 1990a: 66–67, 1990b: 195, 1998: 3, 2000: 164–167, 208–216). Habitus as 'embodied history', as a 'durable way of being', an ...
... feel they exist, resort to activities which, like the French tiercé, or totocalcio, jogo de bicho or all the other lotteries of gambling systems of all the bidonvilles and favelas of the world, offer an escape from the negated time of a ...
... feel excluded from power. The competing claims of the candidates and their supporters during the Sengbe elections disclose the deep rift between a 'traditional' gerontocratic order, with all its symbolic privileges, and a generation of ...
... feeling of being out of place in unfamiliar cultural surroundings' (Hooper 2002:1, emphasis added). In attacking an icon ... feel so ostracised, oppressed and insignificant that they will believe that its defacement or destruction will ...
... feel that we incorporate and depend on the existence of the people and places with which we habitually interact. What befalls these things, befalls us. Another point is crucial here. When the routines that connect The Space of Appearances ...
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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 |