ISBN:
0226775364
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9780226775364
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 201 pages)
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DDC:
301.092
Keywords:
Stoller, Paul
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Anthropologists
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Songhai (African people)
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Stoller, Paul
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West Africans
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
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Alltag, Brauchtum
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Anthropologists Biography
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Anthropologists Biography
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Songhai (African people) Religion
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Songhai (African people) Social life and customs
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West Africans Social life and customs
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Sozialanthropologie
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Songhai
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Berufslaufbahn
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Religion
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Alltagskultur
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Anthropologe
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New York- Harlem
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Niger
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New York, NY
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Biografie
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Anthropologe
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Niger
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Berufslaufbahn
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New York, NY
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Niger
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Alltagskultur
;
Sozialanthropologie
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New York- Harlem
;
Alltagskultur
;
Sozialanthropologie
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Songhai
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Religion
Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index
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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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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
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