The Power of the Between : An Anthropological Odyssey.

By: Stoller, PaulMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780226775364Subject(s): Anthropologists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography | Anthropologists -- Niger -- Biography | Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs | Songhai (African people) -- Niger -- Religion | Songhai (African people) -- Niger -- Social life and customs | Stoller, Paul | West Africans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Power of the Between : An Anthropological OdysseyDDC classification: 301.092 LOC classification: GN21Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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 over decades of reading and research. Stoller imparts his accumulated wisdom not through grandiose pronouncements but by drawing on his gift for storytelling. Tales of his apprenticeship to a sorcerer in Niger, his studies with Claude Lévi-Strauss in Paris, and his friendships with West African street vendors in New York City accompany philosophical reflections on love, memory, power, courage, health, and illness. Graced with Stoller's trademark humor and narrative elegance, The Power of the Between is both the story of a distinguished career and a profound meditation on coming to terms with the impermanence of all things.
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Intro -- 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.

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 over decades of reading and research. Stoller imparts his accumulated wisdom not through grandiose pronouncements but by drawing on his gift for storytelling. Tales of his apprenticeship to a sorcerer in Niger, his studies with Claude Lévi-Strauss in Paris, and his friendships with West African street vendors in New York City accompany philosophical reflections on love, memory, power, courage, health, and illness. Graced with Stoller's trademark humor and narrative elegance, The Power of the Between is both the story of a distinguished career and a profound meditation on coming to terms with the impermanence of all things.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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