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Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and Effects

By Michael Jackson

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2005
ISBN
9781782381969
DOI
10.1515/9781782381969
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1163401 bytes)
Series
Methodology & History in Anthropology; 11
Pages
252\248
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:34:20

Description

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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