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

• Autore: Stoller Paul
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.092; B
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs
• Soggetto non controllato: anthropology, academia, scholarship, between, liminality, memoir, biography, autobiography, cancer, disease, strength, africa, peace corps, niger, harlem, impermanence, transitions, change, mortality, time, illness, health, nonfiction, courage, power, memory, love, new york city, street vendors, friendship, paris, levi-strauss, sorcerer, apprenticeship, career, profession, songhai
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The power of the between
• ISBN: 9786612070242; 1-282-07024-X; 0-226-77536-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782825403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II