{"product_id":"existential-anthropology-events-exigencies-and-effects-9781845451226","title":"Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tInspired 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• American Ethnologist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e…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…”\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e• Arthur Kleinman\u003c\/b\u003e in the \u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological institute\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePreface:\u003c\/b\u003e The Struggle for Being\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e The Course of an Event\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e The Space of Appearances\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Violence and Intersubjective Reason\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Custom and Conflict in Sierra Leone: An Essay on Anarchy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e What’s in a Name? An Essay on the Power of Words\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Mundane Ritual\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Biotechnology and the Critique of Globalisation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Familiar and Foreign Bodies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e The Prose of Suffering\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Whose Human Rights?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Existential Imperatives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042965422423,"sku":"9781845451226","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845451226.jpg?v=1750956432","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/existential-anthropology-events-exigencies-and-effects-9781845451226","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}