TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,Michael
TI  - Life within limits: well-being in a world of want 
SN  - 9780822348924 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - 543 DT 516.4  J13l 2011
U1  - 966.404 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Durham [NC]
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Happiness
KW  - Sierra Leone
KW  - Well-being
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Felicidad
KW  - Sierra Leona
KW  - Bienestar
KW  - Pobreza
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Civilización
KW  - Condiciones económicas
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Imagining Firawa -- Fathers and sons -- Forty days -- Scenes from a marriage -- Smoke and mirrors -- Things hidden since the foundation of the world -- The reopening of the gate of effort -- Something's missing -- The politics of storytelling -- The road to Kabala -- Their eyes were watching God -- Albitaiya -- The year of supernatural abundance -- Strings attached -- The shape of the inconstruable question -- Not to find one's way in a city -- Coda
N2  - 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
ER  -