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paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. DETAILS: sewn PAPERBACK, HEAVILY MARKED in red underlining in last 15 pages of epilogue by a reader who couldn't bother with the rest of the book, I guess, which is clean. JACKSON, MICHAEL. At home in the world : COPY WITH MARKINGS. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000, x, 188pp., . "Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home?" Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for an answer to this question might lead to a new way of thinking about home and homelessness, exile and belonging. At Home in the World is the story of just such a search. Intermittently, over a period of three years, Michael Jackson lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Central Australia. This book chronicles his experience among the Warlpiri of the Tanami Desert." "Something of a nomad himself, having lived in New Zealand, Sierra Leone, England, France, Australia, and the United States, Jackson is deft at capturing the ambiguities of home as a lived experience among the Warlpiri. Blending narrative ethnography, empirical research, philosophy, and poetry, he focuses on the existential meaning of being at home in the world. Here home becomes a metaphor for the intimate relationship between the part of the world a person calls "self" and the part of the world called "other." To speak of "at-homeness," Jackson suggests, implies that people everywhere try to strike a balance between closure and openness, between acting and being acted upon, between acquiescing in the given and choosing their own fate. His book is an exhilarating journey into this existential struggle, responsive at every turn to the political questions of equity and justice that such a struggle entails. A moving depiction of an aboriginal culture at once at home and in exile, and a personal meditation on the practice of ethnography and the meaning of home in our increasingly rootless age, At Home in the World is a timely reflection on how, in defining home, we continue to define ourselves.". 9790822325382 ISBN 0822325381.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xxxii, 216 pages; 24 cm. Summary: Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorize events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they possess for creating viable forms of social life." Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index. Contents: Preface: The stuggle for being -- The course of an event -- The space of appearances -- Violence and intersubjective reason -- Custom and conflict in Sierra Leone: an essay on anarchy -- What's in a name?: an essay on the power of words -- Mundane ritual -- Biotechnology and the critique of globalisation -- Familiar and foreign bodies -- The prose of suffering -- Whose human rights? -- Existential imperatives -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects: Philosophical anthropology. Existentialism. Genre: Bibliography. 3 Kg.

PAPERBACK, attractive copy, very good. JACKSON, MICHAEL. Critique of identity thinking. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022, 207pp., . Recent world-wide political developments have persuaded many people that we are again living in what Hannah Arendt called "dark times." Jackson's response to this age of uncertainty is to remind us how much experience falls outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible. Drawing on such critical thinkers as Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Karl Jaspers, whose work was profoundly influenced by the catastrophes that overwhelmed the world in the middle of the last century, Jackson explores the transformative and redemptive power of marginalized voices in the contemporary conversation of humankind. - CONTENTS: Mistaken identities : the task of thinking in dark times -- Radical empiricism and the little things of life -- The witch as a category and as a person -- The new materialisms -- Words and deeds -- Critique of cultural fundamentalism -- Existential scarcity and ethical sensibility -- Identification and description : an essay on metaphor -- Islam and identity among the Kuranko -- In defense of existential anthropology. ISBN 9781800734425.

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Some binding soil. VG. 23x15cm, viii,278 pp, BOUND UPSIDE-DOWN. Contains 11 papers. Includes: Introduction: phenomenology, radical empiricism, and anthropological critique [Michael Jackson]; Honor and shame [Lila Abu-Lughod]; Struggling along [Robert Desjarlais]; The cosmology of life transmission [Rene Devisch]; Reflections on a cut finger:taboo in the Umeda conception of the self [Alfred Gell] Space and sociality in a Dayak longhouse [Christine Helliwell]; In defiance of destiny: the management of time and gender at a Cretan funeral [Michael Herzfeld]; Suffering and its professional transformation: toward an ethnography of interpersonal experience [Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman]; Hand drumming: an essay in practical knowledge [Shawn Lindsay]; On dying and suffering in Iqwaye exsistence [Jadran Mimica]; If not the words:shared practical activity and friendship in fieldwork [Keith Ridler]; After the field [Jim Wafer]. Minor rubbing. Some binding soil. VG.