Michael Jackson

Life Within Limits

Well-Being in a World of Want

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on a return to the village in Sierra Leone where he did his first ethnographic fieldwork in 1969-70, an anthropologist reflects on the universality of human discontent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 767g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348924
• ISBN-10: 0822348926
• Artikelnr.: 32856609

Autorenporträt

Michael Jackson

Inhaltsangabe

Imagining Firawa ix
Fathers and Sons 1
Forty Days 13
Scenes from a Marriage 30
Smoke and Mirrors 46
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World 63
The Reopening of the Gate of Effort 77
Something's Missing 88
The Politics of Storytelling 100
The Road to Kabala 112
Their Eyes Were Watching God 122
Albitaiya 134
The Year of Supernatural Abundance 145
Strings Attached 158
The Shape of the Inconstruable Question 172
Not to Find One's Way in a City 187
Coda 199
Acknowledgments 201
Notes 203
Index 225