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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... catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Printed on acid-free paper ISBN 978-1-57181-476-0 hardback ISBN 978-1-84545-122-6 paperback CONTENTS Acknowledgements Preface: The Struggle for Being 1. 2. 10.
Events, Exigencies, and Effects Michael Jackson. CONTENTS. Acknowledgements Preface: The Struggle for Being 1. 2. 10. 11. The Course of an Event 1 The Space of Appearances Violence and Intersubjective Reason Custom and Conflict in Sierra ...
... in my book In Sierra Leone (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint these materials. PREFACE: THE STRUGGLE FOR BEING Ultimately, the focus has to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Events, Exigencies, and Effects Michael Jackson. PREFACE: THE STRUGGLE FOR BEING Ultimately, the focus has to be on what ... struggle between contending forces and imperatives. At times this 'sheer and reeling need to be' (DeLillo PREFACE.
... struggle to go on living in the face of adversity and loss. At times it is a struggle for being against nothingness – for whatever will make life worth living rather than hopeless, profitless and pointless. That being is precarious and ...
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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