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Existential Anthropology - Events, Exigencies, and Effects (Paperback, New)
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Existential Anthropology - Events, Exigencies, and Effects (Paperback, New)
Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology
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."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." . Arthur Kleinman in the JRAI 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. 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.
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