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Existential anthropology: events, exigencies and effects

Michael Jackson
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page vii)
  • Preface: The Struggle for Being (page ix)
  • 1. The Course of an Event (page 1)
  • 2. The Space of Appearances (page 15)
  • 3. Violence and Intersubjective Reason (page 35)
  • 4. Custom and Conflict in Sierra Leone: An Essay on Anarchy (page 53)
  • 5. What's in a Name? An Essay on the Power of Words (page 75)
  • 6. Mundane Ritual (page 93)
  • 7. Biotechnology and the Critique of Globalisation (page 111)
  • 8. Familiar and Foreign Bodies (page 127)
  • 9. The Prose of Suffering (page 143)
  • 10. Whose Human Rights? (page 159)
  • 11. Existential Imperatives (page 181)
  • Bibliography (page 195)
  • Index (page 211)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JRAI 13.2 (June 2007): 519 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4623001
AANTH 108.4 (Dec. 2006): 901-902 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4496549
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Published: 2008
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN(s)
  • 9781782381969 (ebook)
  • 9781571814760 (hardcover)
  • 9781845451226 (paper)
Subject
  • Anthropology
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