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Life Within Limits Well-Being in a World of Want

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ISBN-10: 0822349159

ISBN-13: 9780822349150

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael Jackson

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The sense that well-being remains elusive, transitory, and unevenly distributed is felt by the rich as well as the poor, and in all societies. To explore this condition of existential dissatisfaction, the anthropologist Michael Jackson traveled to Sierra Leone, described in a recent UN report as the "least livable" country in the world. There he revisited the village where he did his first ethnographic fieldwork in 196970 and lived in 1979. Jackson writes that Africans have always faced forces from without that imperil lives and livelihoods. Though these forces have assumed different forms at different times-slave raiding, warfare, epidemic illness, colonial domination, state interference,…    
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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 2/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.20" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Kathleen Blake Yancey is the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition at Florida State University. Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) and Past Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), she is President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). In addition, she co-directs the Inter/National Coalition on Electronic Portfolio Research. She has directed several institutes focused on electronic portfolios and on service learning and reflection, and with her colleagues in English Education, she is working on developing a program in new literacies. Previously,…    

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Fathers and Sons
Forty Days
Scenes from a Marriage
Smoke and Mirrors
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
The Reopening of the Gate of Effort
Something's Missing
The Politics of Storytelling
The Road to Kabala
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Albitaiya
The Year of Supernatural Abundance
Strings Attached
The Shape of the Inconstruable Question
Not to Find One's Way in a City
Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index