Jackson Life Within Limits

Well-being in a World of Want
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9369-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 245 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Jackson, Distinguished Visiting Professor in World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, is an award-winning poet, novelist, and anthropologist. His many books include The Palm at the End of the Mind, Excursions, In Sierra Leone, and At Home in the World, all also published by Duke University Press.