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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... Bodies The Prose of Suffering Whose Human Rights? Existential Imperatives Bibliography Index vii ix 15 3. 35 4. 53 5. 75 6. 93 7. 111 8. 127 9. 143 159 181 195 211 ... for several decades now our world has been changing. CONTENTS.
... Bodies: a Phenomenological Exploration of the HumanTechnology Interface' (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8(2), 2002d: 333–346 [Chapter 8]). Parts of chapters 4, 9, and 10 have previously appeared, in slightly different ...
... body, house, village, chiefdom – in exactly the same way that in a consumer society material possessions bolster and define a person's sense of wellbeing, substantiality and standing. For Kuranko, the notion of a full container is a ...
... bodies and anonymous faces were the subject of Sebastião Salgado's bewitching black and white photographs. In his ... body becomes the main instrument of these passions – a veritable focus of New Age notions of energy fields, amulets ...
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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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