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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... things, or capitalism conflates its enterprise with an allegedly 'natural' human yearning for self-improvement and freedom, though condemns vast numbers of human beings to a life of servility. And yet, the human capacity for creating ...
... 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 populations are now written off as expendable, obsolete and ...
... things from various vantage points. While one's sense of an event may be inexpressible and personal, signification mediates connections with other points of view, other perspectives, other people. A common response to distressing events ...
... thing behind appearances', and shock us into the realisation 'that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern' that connects all human beings (cited in Schulkind 1978: 20–21). 15. Fortes 1987, Geertz 1973, Gluckman 1958, Lévi-Strauss ...
... things to come, which is why ethics is perhaps more urgently a matter of how we react to circumstances than the circumstances themselves. Sartre defines human freedom as our capacity to make ourselves out of what we are made (Sartre ...
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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 |