Coincidences : synchronicity, verisimilitude, and storytelling

著者

• Jackson, Michael

書誌事項

Coincidences : synchronicity, verisimilitude, and storytelling

Michael Jackson

Produced by Amazon, c2021

注記

Reprint. Originally published: Oakland, California : University of California Press , c2021

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "Most people have a story to tell about a remarkable coincidence that in some instances changed the course of their lives. These uncanny occurrences have been variously interpreted as evidence of divine influence, fate, or the collective unconscious. Less common are explanations that explore the social situations and personal preoccupations of the individuals who place the most weight on coincidences. Drawing on a variety of coincidence stories, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson builds a case for seeing them as allegories of separation and loss--revealing the hope of repairing sundered lives, reconnecting estranged friends, reuniting distant kin, closing the gap between people and their gods, and achieving a sense of emotional and social connectedness with others in a fragmented world"-- Provided by publisher

収録内容

• Time to time
• Person to person
• Place to place

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Most people have a story to tell about a remarkable coincidence that in some instances changed the course of their lives. These uncanny occurrences have been variously interpreted as evidence of divine influence, fate, or the collective unconscious. Less common are explanations that explore the social situations and personal preoccupations of the individuals who place the most weight on coincidences. Drawing on a variety of coincidence stories, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson builds a case for seeing them as allegories of separation and loss-revealing the hope of repairing sundered lives, reconnecting estranged friends, reuniting distant kin, closing the gap between people and their gods, and achieving a sense of emotional and social connectedness with others in a fragmented world.

目次

Preface Time to Time A World in a Grain of Sand Lost and Found Synchronicity and Suffering The Other Portion Correspondences Ships That Pass in the Night Chance Meeting Coincidence and Theodicy Amazing Grace About Time March 15, 2019 Person to Person Confluences Love It So Happened That . . . Contrived Coincidences The Double Chinese Boxes Autumn Leaves Magdalene of the Black Rose All the Birds of the Air Place to Place The Relativity of Our Viewpoints As Time Goes By Pieces of Music Strangers on a Train The Lost Child In the Nature of Things Il Ritorno in Patria Affective Coincidences Coincidence and Fate The Question of Verisimilitude Coda Acknowledgments Notes Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC18854514
• ISBN:
  • 9780520379961
• 出版国コード: ja
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: [Japan]
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 209 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : BF1175
  • DC23 : 133.8
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Coincidence