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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... explore human lifeworlds as the sites of a perennial struggle for existence – theorising this as a dynamic relationship between the human capacity for life, and the potentialities of any social environment for providing the wherewithal ...
... explore the space of appearances – where that which is in potentia becomes in presentia – disclosed, drawn out, brought forth, given presence or embodied.5 Object-relations theory is particularly helpful in pursuing this mode of inquiry ...
... explore human being-in-the-world through our ever-changing capacity to create the conditions of viable existence and coexistence in relation to the given potentialities of our environment. Alienation signifies a radical rupture of this ...
... explore vengeful, occult and spiritual avenues to wealth and power (Comaroff and Comaroff 1999, Devisch 1995, 2003, Geschiere 1997, Lindquist 2000,9 Shaw 2002). Such thoughts were on my mind in the days after I learned of the death of ...
... explore Aboriginal experiences of marginalisation in contemporary Australia. Bourdieu's argument is that it is at precisely these critical moments, when the expectations that spring from our habitus are no longer reasonable ...
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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