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Agnostic
Alternative Anthropology
Animal Kingdom
Author_Nigel Rapport
Beer Sheva
Beethoven
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consciousness studies
Democratic Violence
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existential
existential autonomy in society
Existential Power
Field School
Follow
Friedrich
Held
individual agency
Individual's Life Project
mitzpe
narrative identity
nietzsche
Nihilistic Violence
Persona
Personal Completion
philosophical anthropology
political power dynamics
Port Glasgow
power
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rapport
Rapport 1994a
Rembrandt
social institutions critique
Socio-cultural Milieu
Spencer
Stanley
Stanley's Art
Stanley's Life
Timeless
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780415258623
- Weight: 584g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives. In I Am Dynamite, the anthropologist Nigel Rappaport argues for a different view. Focusing on the lives and works of the writer and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi, refugee and engineer Ben Glaser, Israeli ceramicist and immigrant Rachel Siblerstein, artist Stanley Spencer, and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he shows how we can have the capacity and inclination to formulate 'life projects'. It is in the pursuit of these life projects, that is, making our life our work, that we can avoid the structures of ideology and institution.
Nigel Rapport holds the Chair in Anthropological and Philosophical Studies in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. His books include Key Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Routledge, 2000), British Subjects (2002) and Transcendent Individual (Routledge, 1997). He has received awards from the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
