Existential anthropology events, exigencies and effects

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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Main Author Jackson, Michael
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Berghahn Books 2008
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition1st ed.
SeriesMethodology and history in anthropology
Subjects
Anthropology
Existentialism
Philosophical anthropology
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sociology
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Summary: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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University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing
Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Mode of access: Intranet.
Reprint. Originally published: 2005.
2016.
New Zealand author.
ISBN:1571814760
9781845451226
9781571814760
1845451228
9781782381969
1782381961
DOI:10.2307/j.ctt1x76f0c