The power of the between an anthropological odyssey /

• Main Author: Stoller, Paul.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Stoller, Paul.; Anthropologists > Biography. > Niger; Anthropologists > Biography. > New York > New York (State); Songhai (African people) > Religion. > Niger; Songhai (African people) > Social life and customs. > Niger; West Africans > Social life and customs. > New York > New York (State); Anthropologists.; Songhai (African people); West Africans.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. > Anthropology; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs.; Niger.; Songhai.; Electronic books.
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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 of who we are, what...

Table of 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.