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Existential anthropology;events, exigencies, and effects

eBook, English, uuuu
Berghahn Books, New York, uuuu
1 online resource
9781782381969, 1782381961
946007531
Existential Anthropology; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1. THE COURSE OF AN EVENT; Chapter 2. THE SPACE OF APPEARANCES; Chapter 3. VIOLENCE AND INTERSUBJECTIVE REASON; Chapter 4. CUSTOM AND CONFLICT IN SIERRA LEONE:AN ESSAY ON ANARCHY; Chapter 5. WHAT'S IN A NAME? AN ESSAY ON THE POWER OF WORDS; Chapter 6. MUNDANE RITUAL; Chapter 7. BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE CRITIQUE OF GLOBALISATION; Chapter 8. FAMILIAR AND FOREIGN BODIES; Chapter 9. THE PROSE OF SUFFERING; Chapter 10. WHOSE HUMAN RIGHTS?; Chapter 11. EXISTENTIAL IMPERATIVES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX