The palm at the end of the mind : relatedness, religiosity, and the real

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The palm at the end of the mind : relatedness, religiosity, and the real

Michael Jackson

Duke University Press, 2009

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references

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ISBN 9780822343592

内容説明

In many societies and for many people, religiosity is only incidentally connected with texts or theologies, church or mosque, temple or monastery. Drawing on a lifetime of ethnographic work among people for whom religion is not principally a matter of faith, doctrine, or definition, Michael Jackson turns his attention to those situations in life where we come up against the limits of language, our strength, and our knowledge, yet are sometimes thrown open to new ways of understanding our being-in-the-world, to new ways of connecting with others. Through sixty-one beautifully crafted essays based on sojourns in Europe, West Africa, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, and taking his cue from Wallace Stevens’s late poem, “Of Mere Being,” Jackson explores a range of experiences where “the palm at the end of the mind” stands “beyond thought,” on “the edge of space,” “a foreign song.” Moments of crisis as well as everyday experiences in cafés, airports, and offices disclose the subtle ways in which a single life shades into others, the boundaries between cultures become blurred, fate unfolds through genealogical time, elective affinities make their appearance, and different values contend.

目次

Preface xi 1. Ancestral Roots The Real 1 Only Connect 2 93 Irving Street 4 Reconnecting 8 Missed Connections 11 Tertium Quid 14 The Dead 19 Mind the Gap 23 The Genealogical Imagination 29 The Penumbral 34 After Midnight 38 Second Skins 40 On Not Severing the Vine When Harvesting the Grapes 42 Corrupted Con-texts 46 The Broken Heart 48 2. Primary Bonds Incarnations 52 The Matrixial 57 A Letter from Athens 61 Emily's Journal 62 Beginnings 65 The Pain in Painting 69 Paths 73 Parallel Lives 75 My Lunch with arthur 81 The Wellness Narratives 84 Night 94 Outside the Window 98 "What Really Matters" 99 3. Elective Affinities Knots 103 Marina del Rey 106 In Limbo 108 In Media Res 108 In Wellington 112 The Enigma of Anteriority 116 Survivor Guilt 119 Ventifact 123 Measured Talk 129 Heaven and Hell 131 Manifest Destiny 134 The Nature of Things 148 The Road of Excess 159 The Eternal Ones of the Dream 162 Strange Lights 15 Recognitions 168 The Other Portion 173 It Happens 176 Ships That Pass in the Night 178 4. Competing Values Cafe Stelling 182 Value Judgments 184 The Bottle Imp 189 Marginal Notes 193 A Storyteller's Story 195 Big Thing and Small Thing 200 Sacrifice 203 Prince Vessantara 208 The Girl Who Went Beneath the Water 210 Ill-Gotten Gains 216 Is Nothing Sacred? 221 Return to the Cafe Stelling 229 Metanoia 232 The Place Where We Live 236 Acknowledgments 239
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: pbk ISBN 9780822343813

内容説明

In many societies and for many people, religiosity is only incidentally connected with texts or theologies, church or mosque, temple or monastery. Drawing on a lifetime of ethnographic work among people for whom religion is not principally a matter of faith, doctrine, or definition, Michael Jackson turns his attention to those situations in life where we come up against the limits of language, our strength, and our knowledge, yet are sometimes thrown open to new ways of understanding our being-in-the-world, to new ways of connecting with others. Through sixty-one beautifully crafted essays based on sojourns in Europe, West Africa, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, and taking his cue from Wallace Stevens's late poem, "Of Mere Being," Jackson explores a range of experiences where "the palm at the end of the mind" stands "beyond thought," on "the edge of space," "a foreign song." Moments of crisis as well as everyday experiences in cafes, airports, and offices disclose the subtle ways in which a single life shades into others, the boundaries between cultures become blurred, fate unfolds through genealogical time, elective affinities make their appearance, and different values contend.

目次

Preface xi 1. Ancestral Roots The Real 1 Only Connect 2 93 Irving Street 4 Reconnecting 8 Missed Connections 11 Tertium Quid 14 The Dead 19 Mind the Gap 23 The Genealogical Imagination 29 The Penumbral 34 After Midnight 38 Second Skins 40 On Not Severing the Vine When Harvesting the Grapes 42 Corrupted Con-texts 46 The Broken Heart 48 2. Primary Bonds Incarnations 52 The Matrixial 57 A Letter from Athens 61 Emily's Journal 62 Beginnings 65 The Pain in Painting 69 Paths 73 Parallel Lives 75 My Lunch with arthur 81 The Wellness Narratives 84 Night 94 Outside the Window 98 "What Really Matters" 99 3. Elective Affinities Knots 103 Marina del Rey 106 In Limbo 108 In Media Res 108 In Wellington 112 The Enigma of Anteriority 116 Survivor Guilt 119 Ventifact 123 Measured Talk 129 Heaven and Hell 131 Manifest Destiny 134 The Nature of Things 148 The Road of Excess 159 The Eternal Ones of the Dream 162 Strange Lights 15 Recognitions 168 The Other Portion 173 It Happens 176 Ships That Pass in the Night 178 4. Competing Values Cafe Stelling 182 Value Judgments 184 The Bottle Imp 189 Marginal Notes 193 A Storyteller's Story 195 Big Thing and Small Thing 200 Sacrifice 203 Prince Vessantara 208 The Girl Who Went Beneath the Water 210 Ill-Gotten Gains 216 Is Nothing Sacred? 221 Return to the Cafe Stelling 229 Metanoia 232 The Place Where We Live 236 Acknowledgments 239

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