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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782825403321

Autore

Stoller Paul

Titolo

The power of the between [[electronic resource] ] : an anthropological odyssey / / Paul Stoller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2009

ISBN

9786612070242

1-282-07024-X

0-226-77536-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

301.092

B

Soggetti

Anthropologists - Niger

Anthropologists - New York (State) - New York

Songhai (African people) - Niger - Religion

Songhai (African people) - Niger - Social life and customs

West Africans - New York (State) - New York - Social life and customs

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Power of the Between -- 1. Seeking Truth -- 2. Alternative Truths -- 3. Embodiments -- 4. Knowledge -- 5. Sorcery -- 6. New York City -- 7. Complexities -- 8. Family -- 9. Sensuousness -- 10. Embodied Memories -- 11. Wood -- 12. New World Circuits -- 13. Art -- 14. Intersections -- 15. Weaving the World -- 16. Immunology and the Village of the Healthy -- 17. Entering the Village of the Sick -- 18. Sorcery in the World -- 19. Remission -- 20. Reconfiguration -- 21. Ethnography -- 22. Memoir -- 23. Imagination -- 24. Stories -- Epilogue: Flying on the Wings of the Wind -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

It is the anthropologist's fate to always be between things: countries, languages, cultures, even realities. But rather than lament this, anthropologist Paul Stoller here celebrates the creative power of the



between, showing how it can transform us, changing our conceptions of who we are, what we know, and how we live in the world. Beginning with his early days with the Peace Corps in Africa and culminating with a recent bout with cancer, The Power of the Between is an evocative account of the circuitous path Stoller's life has taken, offering a fascinating depiction of how a career is shaped