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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... means to some kind of end worth living for – in perhaps having to abandon all other goals and values in order to maintain the bare minimum of life' (Gorz 1989: 276). Yet hardly a day passes that one is not overwhelmed by the human ...
... means, Noah is increasingly attracted to what James Fernandez calls 'the occult search for capacity' (1982: 215). In a country where the gap between expectations and opportunity is so great, 'wild' powers such as witchcraft, sorcery ...
... meaning and orientation, its present and its future' (2000: 234–235). However, for me, the most compelling insights into the kind of symbolic action that finds expression in, say, Melanesian cargo cults, the migrant's hope of a better ...
... means to take an initiative, to begin (as the Greek 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) ...
... means of improving one's fortunes may be changed. But one thing is clear: an obsession with violence and with chance diminishes as social integration and knowledge increase. But where, if anywhere, one may ask, in a world where entire ...
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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 |