Excursions

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Excursions

Michael Jackson

Duke University Press, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287) and index

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内容説明

A village in Sierra Leone. A refugee trail over the Pyrenees in French Catalonia. A historic copper mine in Sweden. The Shuf mountains in Lebanon. The Swiss Alps. The heart of the West African diaspora in southeast London. The anthropologist Michael Jackson makes his sojourns to each of these far-flung locations, and to his native New Zealand, occasions for exploring the contradictions and predicaments of social existence. He calls his explorations "excursions" not only because each involved breaking with settled routines and certainties, but because the image of an excursion suggests that thought is always on the way, the thinker a journeyman whose views are perpetually tested by encounters with others. Throughout Excursions, Jackson emphasizes the need for preconceptions and conventional mindsets to be replaced by the kind of open-minded critical engagement with the world that is the hallmark of cultural anthropology.Focusing on the struggles and quandaries of everyday life, Jackson touches on matters at the core of anthropology-the state, violence, exile and belonging, labor, indigenous rights, narrative, power, home, and history. He is particularly interested in the gaps that characterize human existence, such as those between insularity and openness, between the things over which we have some control and the things over which we have none, and between ourselves and others as we talk past each other, missing each others' meanings. Urging a recognition of the limits to which human existence can be explained in terms of cause and effect, he suggests that knowing why things happen may ultimately be less important than trying to understand how people endure in the face of hardship.

目次

Acknowledgments vii Preface: theme and variations ix 1. In the Footsteps of Walter Benjamin 1 2. Of Time and the River: the interface of history and human lives 22 3. Imagining the Powers That Be: society versus the state 40 4. On the Work of Human Hands 61 5. Storytelling Events, Violence, and the Appearance of the Past 80 6. Migrant Imaginaries: with Sewa Koroma in southeast London 102 7. A Walk on the Wild Side: the idea of human nature revisited 135 8. From Anxiety to Method: a reappraisal 154 9. Despite Babel: an essay on human misunderstanding 174 10. On Birth, Death, and Rebirth 192 11. Quandaries of Belonging: home thoughts from abroad 216 12. A Critique of Colonial Reason 233 Notes 257 References 271 Index 289

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