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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... (Makeni) and addressed to the Inspector-General of Police in Freetown. If S.B. had a contentious relationship with the police, Johns' report made it very clear that the police had their own bones to pick with S.B. Acting on intelligence ...
... Makeni. SLP 294 was provided for him with a police driver OSD 4700 and one guard. I led the way to Makeni.' Johns' report concluded with an account of the journey back to Makeni– how S.B. ordered a halt at Fadugu where he 'said a lot of ...
... Makeni. I don't know why the police are holding grudges against me. I am not anti-police. I'm against people who don't work hard. And I want justice done. Because Alhaji Balansama's supporters are really scared now. Ali's people are ...
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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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