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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... Noah in early 2002, and this forms of the basis of chapter 2 in this work, in which I explore Aboriginal experiences of marginalisation in contemporary Australia. Bourdieu's argument is that it is at precisely these critical moments ...
Events, Exigencies, and Effects Michael Jackson. youth, the unemployed, of Noah despairing of his prospects in a country devastated by war, and of many Aboriginal people in contemporary Australia. A present without one's own presence ...
... Noah (S.B.'s younger brother) how he explained Ali's conduct. Rather surprisingly, considering his preoccupation with politics, Noah emphasised Ali's upbringing. 'Ali's father, the late Balansama Marah, was never a strong chief or father,' ...
... Noah's comments on Ali's upbringing, in S.B.'s reasons for supporting Alhaji Balansama (both S.B. and the SLPP were indebted to Balansama for what he had given them over many years of loyal service), and in S.B.'s remarks about ...
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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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