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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... experience of belonging and being out of place among Aboriginal people in contemporary Australia; cases of organ transplantation, and the interface between humans and machines; instances of ritualisation and the magical use of language ...
... experience, it succeeds in giving us a vivid sense of what is at stake at any moment of being, and in introducing us to some of the ways in which existential-phenomenological thought has theorised the question of being. Being human ...
... experienced variously in the course of our interactions with others, as well as our relationships to the everyday environments and events in which we find ourselves. It therefore bears a family resemblance to James Gibson's notion of ...
... experiences of frustration, resentment and exclusion are exacerbated, leading more and more people to explore vengeful, occult and spiritual avenues to wealth and power (Comaroff and Comaroff 1999, Devisch 1995, 2003, Geschiere 1997 ...
... experienced as a kind of 'second nature' (1990a: 56), and the concept is thus reminiscent of Husserl's notion of the 'natural standpoint' (1967: 73) and Schutz's observation that we take our world and worldview largely for-granted (1967 ...
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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