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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... Sierra Leone: An Essay on Anarchy What's in a Name? An Essay on the Power of Words Mundane Ritual Biotechnology and the Critique of Globalisation Familiar and Foreign Bodies The Prose of Suffering Whose Human Rights? Existential ...
... Sierra Leone, my fieldwork in 2002 and 2003 would have been impossible but for the friendship and hospitality of the Honourable S.B. Marah, Rose Marah and Noah B. Marah. Several chapters of this book were drafted during my tenure of a ...
... Sierra Leone; the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001; the experience of belonging and being out of place among Aboriginal people in contemporary Australia; cases of organ transplantation, and the ...
... Sierra Leone on 29 January 2003. I had just arrived in Sweden after several weeks in Sierra Leone, and had seen Noah only a few days before. After many vicissitudes, he seemed to be on the threshold of a new beginning. The war in which ...
... Sierra Leone People's Party, and Prime Minister] heard that I was with the opposition he ordered me to Freetown. The D.O. provided a Fiat lorry to bring me. I can remember leaving Kabala at exactly 4.30 to attend the call of the prime ...
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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