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Harmattan : a philosophical fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Michael, 1940- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Insurrections.
Subjects:
Kuranko (African people) > Social life and customs.
Kuranko (African people) > Folklore.
Ethnology > Sierra Leone.
Jackson, Michael, > 1940- > Travel > Sierra Leone.
Philosophical anthropology.
Table of Contents:
  • Limitrophes
  • Show and tell
  • A place in the bush
  • Allegories of the wilderness
  • Within and without limits
  • The top five regrets of the dying
  • Life is elsewhere
  • Dark soundings
  • On not being rule-governed
  • Confronting one's demons
  • Renata
  • Sentiments limitrophes
  • Neither here nor there
  • The faraway tree
  • What lies beneath
  • Schrödinger's cat
  • Harmattan
  • Stories happen
  • Thousands Bay
  • Persona non grata
  • Tom Lannon's story
  • Cosmega
  • Sangbamba
  • Ezekiel's story
  • Petra's letter
  • No condition is permanent
  • The school
  • Morowa
  • Night
  • After fieldwork
  • Mistral.