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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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