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Life within limits : well-being in a world of want / Michael Jackson.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.Description: xiii, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780822348924 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822349150 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 966.404 22
LOC classification:
  • 543 DT 516.4  J13l 2011
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 543 DT 516.4 J13l 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000135832

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.

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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