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The Midlanders (Hardcover)
Charles Tenney Jackson, Arthur William Brown
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R1,104
Discovery Miles 11 040
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International Conciliation, No. 374, November, 1941. Preface By
Nicholas Murray Butler.
International Conciliation, No. 374, November, 1941. Preface By
Nicholas Murray Butler.
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The Midlanders (Paperback)
Charles Tenney Jackson; Illustrated by Arthur William Brown
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R1,011
Discovery Miles 10 110
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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The Midlanders (Paperback)
Charles Tenney Jackson; Illustrated by Arthur William Brown
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R1,023
Discovery Miles 10 230
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance
that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This
theme is explored through encounters between individual
anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of
the most basic concepts of the discipline--including notions of
ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of
human life--are products of a dialogue, both implicit and explicit,
between anthropology and philosophy. These philosophical
undercurrents in anthropology also speak to the question of what it
is to experience our being in a world marked by radical difference
and otherness. In "The Ground Between," twelve leading
anthropologists offer intimate reflections on the influence of
particular philosophers on their way of seeing the world, and on
what ethnography has taught them about philosophy. Ethnographies of
the mundane and the everyday raise fundamental issues that the
contributors grapple with in both their lives and their thinking.
With directness and honesty, they relate particular philosophers to
matters such as how to respond to the suffering of the other, how
concepts arise in the give and take of everyday life, and how to be
attuned to the world through the senses. Their essays challenge the
idea that philosophy is solely the province of professional
philosophers, and suggest that certain modalities of being in the
world might be construed as ways of doing philosophy.
"Contributors." Joao Biehl, Steven C. Caton, Vincent Crapanzano,
Veena Das, Didier Fassin, Michael M. J. Fischer, Ghassan Hage,
Clara Han, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, Michael Puett,
Bhrigupati Singh
The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance
that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This
theme is explored through encounters between individual
anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of
the most basic concepts of the discipline--including notions of
ethics, politics, temporality, self and other, and the nature of
human life--are products of a dialogue, both implicit and explicit,
between anthropology and philosophy. These philosophical
undercurrents in anthropology also speak to the question of what it
is to experience our being in a world marked by radical difference
and otherness. In "The Ground Between," twelve leading
anthropologists offer intimate reflections on the influence of
particular philosophers on their way of seeing the world, and on
what ethnography has taught them about philosophy. Ethnographies of
the mundane and the everyday raise fundamental issues that the
contributors grapple with in both their lives and their thinking.
With directness and honesty, they relate particular philosophers to
matters such as how to respond to the suffering of the other, how
concepts arise in the give and take of everyday life, and how to be
attuned to the world through the senses. Their essays challenge the
idea that philosophy is solely the province of professional
philosophers, and suggest that certain modalities of being in the
world might be construed as ways of doing philosophy.
"Contributors." Joao Biehl, Steven C. Caton, Vincent Crapanzano,
Veena Das, Didier Fassin, Michael M. J. Fischer, Ghassan Hage,
Clara Han, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, Michael Puett,
Bhrigupati Singh
Frederick George Jackson (1860 1938) set out on his expedition from
Vaygach Island with two objectives: to test his equipment for a
future voyage much further north, and to study the Samoyeds.
Although his goals seemed straightforward, they proved more
difficult than expected to achieve. After being left on the island
ahead of schedule without most of his food supplies, and with no
interpreter, he found that his principal bargaining tool was tea,
and that many of the areas he had hoped to explore were too
dangerous. This account of his experiences, first published in
1895, provides a glimpse into the seemingly insuperable
difficulties of a nineteenth-century Arctic expedition, and the
unflappable way in which Jackson dealt with them. Including notes
on distraught lemmings, Samoyed customs, and the linguistic
annotations of the editor, Arthur Montefiore, this entertaining
book will interest historians and curious modern-day travellers
alike.
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