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Zusatztext "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." ? American Ethnologist " ?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 Journal of the Royal Anthropological institute Informationen zum Autor Collectively, this book's three authors have more than 100 years of experience in mechanical pulping and remain active in the industry. Michael Jackson, the principal author, and Mark Frith, have extensive experience from working in research and development as well as with equipment suppliers and currently have their own consulting companies specializing in TMP operations and in pulp quality development. Norman Wild worked as a consulting engineer in the pulp and paper sector for 19 years and for the last 14 years has focused on conservation and energy management in the pulp and paper sector. All three authors have published papers in a number of technical journals, and the principal author, Michael Jackson, has published more than 100 technical papers during his 55-year career. Michael Jackson lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia; Norman Wild lives in Richmond, British Columbia; and Mark Frith lives in Montreal. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Preface: The Struggle for Being Chapter 1. The Course of an Event Chapter 2. The Space of Appearances Chapter 3. Violence and Intersubjective Reason Chapter 4. Custom and Conflict in Sierra Leone: An Essay on Anarchy Chapter 5. What's in a Name? An Essay on the Power of Words Chapter 6. Mundane Ritual Chapter 7. Biotechnology and the Critique of Globalisation Chapter 8. Familiar and Foreign Bodies Chapter 9. The Prose of Suffering ...
