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Existential Anthropology : Events, Exigencies, and Effects / Michael Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 11Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845451226
  • 9781782381969
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE: THE STRUGGLE FOR BEING -- 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
Summary: Inspired 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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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE: THE STRUGGLE FOR BEING -- 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

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Inspired 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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