Existential anthropology
events, exigencies, and effects
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Author
Publication
2004 - Berghahn Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
54,000 words, Guess
Page Count
216 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3307775M
- ISBN-101571814760
- OCLC Control Number55657695
- OCLC Control Numberexistentialanthr0000jack
- Library of Congress Control Number2004053833
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- Goodreads4566012
Classifications
- DDC128
- LCCBD450 .J234 2004
Description
"Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Michael Jackson explores a variety of contemporary 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 possess for creating viable forms of social life."--BOOK JACKET.
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