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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... Intersubjective Reason Custom and Conflict in 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 ...
... Intersubjective Reason' (European Journal of Anthropology, 39, 2002b: 137–148 [Chapter 3]), 'Biotechnology and the Critique of Globalisation' (Ethnos,67(2), 2002c: 141–154. [Chapter 7]), 'Familiar and Foreign Bodies: a Phenomenological ...
... intersubjectively, one must remember that the principle of reciprocity operates both at the level of being and of ... intersubjective logic then comes into play, based on the principle of reciprocity, according to which one has the ...
... intersubjective bond between ourselves and the world an ineluctable outcome of the habitual patterns of our practiced life in a familiar place. In exactly the same way as tools and material possessions come to embody something of ...
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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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