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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... Noah B. Marah. Several chapters of this book were drafted during my tenure of a Guest Professorship at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, University of Uppsala, in February–March 2003 where Sverker Finnström, Mikael ...
... Noah the previous year he had been demoralised and adrift. Now, full of optimism and bonhomie, he joked with me about striking it rich. Our last conversation was a fervent exchange of views on human rights, occasioned by Noah's ...
... Noah's acute sense of being 'shut out', as he put it, was, I suppose, a factor in drawing him toward the world of ... Noah lived with Sewa for a while. He once described this period as one of domestic servitude. Sweeping, cleaning ...
... Noah to finish his secondary schooling, but Noah himself had decided against this; he had also secured Noah his present job in Kono. But it is not objective truth I am concerned with here, but Noah's truth, according to which S.B. ...
... Noah was when he was arrested and charged with sorcery. Why not become the person that one is accused of being, and turn a ... Noah's story involves numerous Kuranko cultural motifs – the rivalry between elder and young brother, the ...
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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