Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and EffectsInspired 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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... Kuranko notion of miran makes this clear. Mirannu (pl.) refer both to material possessions–particularly those that contain and protect, such as a house, clothing, water vessels and cooking pots – as well as to personal attributes that ...
... Kuranko folktales, like folktales throughout the world, with their magical agencies, supernatural intercessories and miraculous transformations, attest to the vital role that wishful thinking and imaginary reworkings of everyday reality ...
... Kuranko area] campaigning for S.B. [i.e., Sewa]. I was like his propaganda secretary. In 1962, S.B. again enlisted my support. I was at Magburaka Secondary School at the time, and parliament had been dissolved with the elections about ...
... Kuranko cultural motifs – the rivalry between elder and young brother, the marginality of the last-born, the influence of one's mother in mediating the blessings of patrilineal forebears – and refers constantly to the historical and ...
... Kuranko that Ali has won the election. As soon as the police Land Rover moved away, Minister Ibrahim Sesay, Munda and myself saw the crowd moving towards my house. Just at that moment one or two policemen arrived. One was in plain ...
Contents
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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 |
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