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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... that subjects consciously assigned to their own thoughts and actions, and arrogate to the intellectual the sole capacity for knowing the truth of the social world. Chapter 1 THE COURSE OF AN EVENT Since action acts xxxii Preface.
... truth of any event is relative to our vantage point and interests, but that the outcome of any eventhinges on how successfully we claim final truth for our own view, and how we relate our own interests to others. In the wake of a ...
... truth, one reason, one cause, one reasonable outcome. Any event discloses both a will toward the future and the sedimented will of the past. Any event may therefore be seen as an epiphany – a window, as it were, onto previous events ...
... truth and the course of events. Third, events as 'abstract particulars' must be related to the singular subjects who both shape and suffer events. This is to say that any event discloses biographies as well as histories. This was borne ...
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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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