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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... means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication ...
... means, first, that we possess consciousness of ourselves and of our world – a consciousness that is, however, unsettled and fluid, oscillating constantly between speech and silence, solitude and sociality, agitation and calm ...
... mean that we re-centre our analysis on the human subject. Nor does it imply that one falls back on the dialectic of ... means, for Winnicott, that culture is not some kind of ready-made, omnipresent composite of habits, meanings and ...
... means to some kind of end worth living for – in perhaps having to abandon all other goals and values in order to maintain the bare minimum of life' (Gorz 1989: 276). Yet hardly a day passes that one is not overwhelmed by the human ...
... means, Noah is increasingly attracted to what James Fernandez calls 'the occult search for capacity' (1982: 215). In a country where the gap between expectations and opportunity is so great, 'wild' powers such as witchcraft, sorcery ...
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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