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