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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... observation that we take our world and worldview largely for-granted (1967: 74). The prevalently unreflective character of human existence covers both phylogenetic and cultural-historical domains. Thus, our biogenetic capacities for ...
... observations of and informants' commentaries on several events. In fact, a great deal of ethnographic writing uses selected details from lived events in order to justify an interpretation, and rarely is an event described so fully or ...
... observe, 'what is at stake' for people cannot be reduced to 'professional sociological categories (roles, sets, status) or psychological terminology (affect, cognition, defense, behavior)' (1996: 171). Though we may define leitmotifs ...
... , and some cooking pots – all 'under the very eyes of the police.' Finally, S.B. observed, 'I told Christopher Johns (Regional Commissioner of Police, North) and Chief Police Officer Mustapha that they The Course of an Event 5.
... observed that people were converging on the house from all directions. Because it had no protective walls or fences around it, policing was very difficult. However, he noted, the Bangladeshi troops under the command of Col M.H. ...
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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