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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... person had he not tampered with my destiny. But you know, I hold no grudge against him, except when he makes these remarks about my not being serious. I used to agree with him. I used to say, “You could say I am not serious: if I were ...
... person that one is accused of being, and turn a stigmatising identification to one's own advantage? During our last conversation, sitting together in the downstairs parlour at S.B.'s house in Freeetown, the daylight fading, Noah spoke ...
... person has in the form of such cultural capital as education, wealth, health, talent – or from being born into his or her society rather than coming to it as a foreigner – the greater will be his or her feel for the game, and the ...
... persons in the form of education, health care, jobs, job training, voting rights and freedom of speech. Like God for believers, society, for its citizens, 'dispenses, to different degrees, the justifications and reasons for existing ...
... person is a child or an adult, male or female, gay or straight, healthy or sick, rich or poor, alone or with others ... person's capacity to endure life's hardships, or a dismissive comment on the banality of suffering (1992: xv–xvi). 2 ...
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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 |