Life within limits : well-being in a world of want

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Life within limits : well-being in a world of want

Michael Jackson

Duke University Press, 2011

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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 1969-70 and lived in 1979. Jackson writes that Africans have always faced forces from without that imperil their lives and livelihoods. Though these forces have assumed different forms at different times-slave raiding, warfare, epidemic illness, colonial domination, state interference, economic exploitation, and corrupt government-they are subject to the same mix of magical and practical reactions that affluent Westerners deploy against terrorist threats, illegal immigration, market collapse, and economic recession. Both the problem of well-being and the question of what makes life worthwhile are grounded in the mystery of existential discontent-the question as to why human beings, regardless of their external circumstances, are haunted by a sense of insufficiency and loss. While philosophers have often asked the most searching questions regarding the human condition, Jackson suggests that ethnographic method offers one of the most edifying ways of actually exploring those questions.

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Imagining Firawa ix Fathers and Sons 1 Forty Days 13 Scenes from a Marriage 30 Smoke and Mirrors 46 Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World 63 The Reopening of the Gate of Effort 77 Something's Missing 88 The Politics of Storytelling 100 The Road to Kabala 112 Their Eyes Were Watching God 122 Albitaiya 134 The Year of Supernatural Abundance 145 Strings Attached 158 The Shape of the Inconstruable Question 172 Not to Find One's Way in a City 187 Coda 199 Acknowledgments 201 Notes 203 Index 225

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