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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... story by showing me a report he had written concerning the events in Kabala. It was dated 6 January, the day after his house had been attacked, and was addressed to the Inspector-General of Police. S.B. began his account by describing ...
... stories. In S.B.'s telephone lobbying, and in the numerous discussions that went on every morning and throughout the weekend in S.B.'s parlour, during which the Kabala affray was recalled, recounted and analysed, and declarations made ...
... stories and other events that it entails. As Hannah Arendt puts it, 'the story that an act starts is composed of its consequent deeds and sufferings' and these 'are boundless, because action, though it may proceed from nowhere, so to ...
... stories, reclaiming a sense of shared certainties and meanings. Not only did 9/11 bring home to us the extent to which the public sphere is internalised and experienced as part of one's private world, as imperative to an individual's ...
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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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