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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... lifeworld are suddenly invalidated, and this may lead to such a loss of confidence, satisfaction and enjoyment that one may feel that life itself no longer has any meaning, and is not worth living. This was the demoralised frame of mind ...
... lifeworld of the garimpeiros a more general metaphor for the limits of what it means to be human – an existential condition of 'fragility and dependence, in which the intentionality of the subject, his ability to act as a social agent ...
... lifeworld, and restricting reason to its cognitive-instrumental dimension (a dimension, we might add, that has been noticeably privileged and selectively utilized in processes of capitalist modernization' (1998: 408, emphasis added). 19 ...
... lifeworld – calling family long-distance, e-mailing friends, rekindling old relationships, reaffirming old ties, attending teach-ins, obsessively watching CNN for news, standing together in solidarity and silence, and, through the ...
... lifeworld 'sacrificed' for 'light/electricity in other places' (para luzen otro lugares) (ibid: 109). A similar poignancy informs Maja Povrzanovic's 1997 account of Dubrovnic under siege, when the city itself – 'the most beautiful place ...
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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