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020			_a9781571814760 _qpbk
041			_aeng
082			_a128 _bJAC
100			_aJackson, Michael
245			_aExistential anthropology _b/events, exigencies and effects _cJackson, Michael
260			_aNew York _bBerghahn Books _cc2008
300			_axxxii, 216 p. _c23 cm.
504			_aBib and Ref
520			_aInspired 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.
650			_aPhilosophical Anthropology; Enistentialism
942			_cREF
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