Existential Anthropology(English, Electronic book text, Jackson Michael)

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Existential Anthropology(English, Electronic book text, Jackson Michael) is written by Jackson Michael and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1782381961 (ISBN 10) and 9781782381969 (ISBN 13).

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.