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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... Foreign Bodies The Prose of Suffering Whose Human Rights? Existential Imperatives Bibliography Index vii ix 15 3. 35 4. 53 5. 75 6. 93 7. 111 8. 127 9. 143 159 181 195 211 ... for several decades now our world has been changing. CONTENTS.
... suffering and the suffering of others; and finally the kinds of events in which the struggle for being is all but absent, yet in which our being often seems most completely consummated. Existential Anthropology A longstanding cliché ...
... suffer rejection, but all kinds of misfortune follow from his being associated with his elder brother. Yet, in his view, he was potentially his brother's equal. Had circumstances been otherwise, he could also have become a Big Man. In ...
... suffer dizzy spells and blackouts, sometimes during surgery. When several patients died, Kawa was suspended. He became known as Killer Kawa. Noah, who had acquired the powers of an alpha or mori-man, 'cleansed' the doctor. The sister ...
... suffering (1992: xv–xvi). 2. It is not that terms like culture, nature, history, society and mind are fictions; rather that they all too readily entice us into the trap of subverting or eclipsing the events we want to fathom with ...
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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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