Existential Anthropology

Events, Exigencies, and Effects

By: Michael Jackson

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Hardcover | 1 June 2005

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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.

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"This book is a thoroughly wise one, learned, patient, and humane: an inspiring companion with which to journey anthropologically to human lifeworlds at any stage of one's life-project." â¢ American Ethnologist

"...what is truly worthwhile in this loose grouping of essays is the ethnographic examples. Powerfully presented, beautifully written (the final three pages of the book offer poignantly evocative description of ethnography as a way of living) and loaded with telling detail..." â¢ Arthur Kleinman in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological institute

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Non-Fiction Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Phenomenology & Existentialism Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy Sociology Social Research & Statistics

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Preface : the struggle for being
The course of an event	p. 1
The space of appearances	p. 15
Violence and intersubjective reason	p. 35
Custom and conflict in Sierra Leone : an essay on anarchy	p. 53
What's in a name? : an essay on the power of words	p. 75
Mundane ritual	p. 93
Biotechnology and the critique of globalisation	p. 111
Familiar and foreign bodies	p. 127
The prose of suffering	p. 143
Whose human rights?	p. 159
Existential imperatives	p. 181
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