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Life within limits : well-being in a world of want / Michael Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Michael, 1940-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Happiness--Sierra Leone.
- Happiness.
- Well-being--Sierra Leone.
- Well-being.
- Poverty--Sierra Leone.
- Poverty.
- Sierra Leone--Civilization.
- Sierra Leone.
- Sierra Leone--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613252142
- 9781283252140
- 1283252147
- 9780822393696
- 0822393697
- OCLC:
- 1139376333
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