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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... political power, in part because his beloved father had been such a forceful and respected figure in the colonial Court Messenger Force, in part because his elder brother Sewa–a prominent politician, and man of substance – had become ...
... political logic of exchange in the Trobriands, social structure in Zululand, lineage relations in a Ndembu vicinage, sacred power among the Nambicuara, fate and freewill among the Tallensi, and status relationships in Bali. But is this ...
... political and economic infrastructures, local or global. This is not because mind, knowledge, power, or wealth play no part in shaping human experience, but because theoretical reason has so often appropriated these terms for its own ...
... political functions of kinship groups at the expense of other functions, or the way Pierre Bourdieu insists on the term 'symbolic capital' when, as he himself points out, the term is a 'misrecognition' of what is really 'a force, a ...
... politics of storytelling (Jackson 2002a) was crafted as a set of variations on this theme, and explored how, in a variety of critical or violent circumstances, the telling of stories enables people to transmute experiences felt to be ...
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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