Michael Jackson

Dilemmas

Beyond Binaries and Double Binds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Pushing back against the idea that dilemmas as clear-cut binary choices, renowned anthropologist Jackson shows us some of the ways that dilemmas are addressed in non-Western thought, traditions, and philosophy. Drawing on examples from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Africa and Australia, each of thirteen chapters examines a particular dilemma.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9781512826708
• ISBN-10: 1512826707
• Artikelnr.: 69728009

Autorenporträt

Michael Jackson is Senior Research Fellow in World Religions at Harvard Divinity School.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introductory Remarks and Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1. Between Fact and Fiction
Chapter 2. African Dilemma Tales
Chapter 3. Forgiving and Forgetting
Chapter 4. Quandaries of Wellbeing
Chapter 5. Impossible Choices
Chapter 6. "I Am Here, I Am There": Historical Wrongs and Redressive Rites
Chapter 7. Between Exile and Death
Chapter 8. Giving In or Going On
Chapter 9. Being of Two Minds
Chapter 10. Between Belonging and Being Out of Place
Chapter 11. Staying Put or Moving Away
Chapter 12. Science and Religion
Chapter 13. Between One and One Another
Coda
Notes
Index