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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Jackson, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

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.

Table of 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