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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... killed him, there and then, James would have seized it. Such were the extremes of emotion that Mr Ramsey excited in his children's breasts by his mere presence; standing, as now, lean as a knife, narrow as the blade of one, grinning ...
... kill the prime minister, who was then Siaka Stevens, as well as Dr Forna [Minister of Finance] and S.I. Koroma [the deputy prime minister]. The police came to my house that same night and arrested me. I was charged with sorcery. But the ...
... kill us. Now they are going around Sengbe, looting and threatening section chiefs.' That afternoon I asked Noah (S.B.'s younger brother) how he explained Ali's conduct. Rather surprisingly, considering his preoccupation with politics ...
... killing me, and burning my house. I sent for the police. They said they would come. They took an hour – and only after going to Ali's house first, which was two hundred yards away from mine. I could see the crowd.1 'Ali's people blocked ...
... killed, and his property looted, S.B. described the worsening situation inside his house. 'Stones were thrown. They even tried to burn a Bangladeshi armed vehicle. We had to move from one end of the house to the other as windows were ...
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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