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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... thought, to changes in the weather or market oscillations between profit and loss. Allusions are also made to fullness (being full of life) or emptiness (being drained), or the contrast between activity (being on the move, being ...
... thought), but also with some secret conceit at his own accuracy of judgement. (Woolf 1977: 9–10) Yet, no sooner has this mood of disappointment and dashed hopes descended, than James's mother reassures him with the words 'But it may be ...
... thoughts were on my mind in the days after I learned of the death of my friend and onetime field assistant, Noah Marah, in Sierra Leone on 29 January 2003. I had just arrived in Sweden after several weeks in Sierra Leone, and had seen ...
... thought, that I had been the subject of some discussion. The prime minister told me that he'd heard many reports about my activities. But his displeasure was not the real reason I dropped out of the race because, by then, S.B. had set ...
... phylogenetic and cultural-historical domains. Thus, our biogenetic capacities for language, for sociality and for conceptual thought, as well as the ways in which these capacities are variously realised in different epochs or in xx Preface.
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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