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Autore |
Stoller Paul |
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Titolo |
The power of the between : an anthropological odyssey / / Paul Stoller |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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9786612070242 |
1-282-07024-X |
0-226-77536-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (215 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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