Palm At the End of the Mind - Relatedness, Religiosity, and the Real

Informationen zum Autor Michael Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor in World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many books of anthropology include Excursions , In Sierra Leone , and At Home in the World , all also published by Duke University Press. He is the author of a memoir, six books of poetry, and two novels. Klappentext A meditation on "border situations," such as birth, death, and crisis, where boundaries between cultures and individuals become blurred. Zusammenfassung Through sixty-one beautifully crafted! concise essays! the anthropologist Michael Jackson reflects on life situations where we are sometimes thrown open to new ways of understanding ourselves and connecting with others.

Product details

• Authors: Jackson, Michael Jackson, Michael D. Jackson, Michael Jackson
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2009
• EAN: 9780822343592
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4359-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, RELIGION / Meditations, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social