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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... reciprocity reveals itself; even those who enjoy emphasizing their differences must be willing to ignore a fundamental identity. This new disturbance, this modest but stubborn attempt to communicate across the incommunicable, is not the ...
... reciprocity operates both at the level of being and of having, for being is in all societies invested in and distributed among the things which people call their own and with which they identify. What one has objectifies who one is. The ...
... reciprocity and the imaginary of social violence. Consider the case of Kinshasa, Zaire, for example. From the end of 1990 to May 1991 a series of lotteries, popular games of chance, and pyramidal money schemes called promotions ...
... reciprocity, not only because these relationships involve conflicting views as to what is 'owed' or 'due' between men of different rank, or a husband and wife, but because understanding these relationships requires a knowledge of both ...
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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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