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Existential Anthropology

Events, Exigencies, and Effects

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

AvMichael Jackson

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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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Utgivningsdatum2005-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMethodology & History in Anthropology
Antal sidor252
FörlagBerghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN9781571814760

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Michael Jackson is a graduate of the Universities of Auckland (New Zealand) and Cambridge (UK), and has, for many years, carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Sierra Leone and Aboriginal Australia. The author of numerous books of anthropology, including the prize-winning Paths Toward a Clearing and At Home in the World, he has also published five books of poetry and two novels. Michael Jackson has taught in his native New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Denmark, where he is presently Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.

AcknowledgementsPreface: The Struggle for BeingChapter 1. The Course of an EventChapter 2. The Space of AppearancesChapter 3. Violence and Intersubjective ReasonChapter 4. Custom and Conflict in Sierra Leone: An Essay on AnarchyChapter 5. What’s in a Name? An Essay on the Power of WordsChapter 6. Mundane RitualChapter 7. Biotechnology and the Critique of GlobalisationChapter 8. Familiar and Foreign BodiesChapter 9. The Prose of SufferingChapter 10. Whose Human Rights?Chapter 11. Existential ImperativesBibliographyIndex