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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... societies, though less diverse, may be viewed in the same way. But each is a solution, not only to the problems of adaptation and subsistence, but to the problem of creating viable forms of existence and coexistence. Moreover, human ...
... societies–but on what Hannah Arendt called 'the subjective in-between' (1958: 183) and on that which comes into being in this intermediate space of human interest and interaction. Bypassing both the individual subject and culture as sui ...
... societies invested in and distributed among the things which people call their own and with which they identify. What one ... society material possessions bolster and define a person's sense of wellbeing, substantiality and standing. For ...
... societies all tend to be regarded as 'natural'. A corollary of this is that people in any one society are prone to regard the behaviour of outsiders as 'unnatural' and 'irrational' and thus, by extension, beings to be shunned, isolated ...
... society rather than coming to it as a foreigner – the greater will be his or her feel for the game, and the greater his or her chances of winning. Marginalised people may have a huge investment in the game (the 'American dream' for ...
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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