{"product_id":"harmattan-9780231172349","title":"Harmattan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA compelling work of ethnography, memoir, and fiction that explores the emancipatory power of transcending boundaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerfully poetic contribution not just to anthropological knowledge but also to our comprehension of the human condition. -- Paul Stoller, West Chester University Jackson's prose shows how for anthropology, thinking must take place in the most unlikely of circumstances: in the very midst of life's tumultuous course, through the very expression of its confounding vicissitudes. -- Anand Pandian, Johns Hopkins University Harmattan is a remarkable inquiry into the intricate interweave between fact and fantasy, anthropological observation and imaginative fiction. In venturing ever further into the text, the reader is deliriously caught, like the book's narrators, in a multichambered realm of storytelling where life, death, friendship, and the elusiveness of truth are the most critical terms of existence. -- Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College Michael Jackson's fascinating new book travels the geographical, psychological, and political borderland of social life and 'the more' that lies beyond. Harmattan's characters are unforgettable: Ezekiel, surviving the civil war in Sierra Leone and migrating to the North and the halls of the British Library; Tom, an anthropologist's alter, making the reverse journey to the uncanny tranquility of Ezekiel's post-civil-war-ravaged village, Cosmega; the woman who was not undone by the wreckage; a Kuranko shaman finding his power and overcoming his fear; and an ethnographer encountering himself, or herself, as another, on the borderland where being is both lost and found. In the literary tradition of Calvino and Pessoa, Conrad and Tutuola, but also Victor Turner and Levi-Strauss, Harmattan is a much-needed contribution toward the regeneration of anthropological thinking and writing. -- Stefania Pandolfo, UC Berkeley A slim but thoughtful rendering of an exotic locale that recalls The Quiet American. Kirkus Reviews Beautifully written. Anthropological Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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  The Faraway Tree  What Lies Beneath  Schrodinger's Cat  Notes 2. 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","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400294605143,"sku":"9780231172349","price":67.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231172349.jpg?v=1730470307","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/harmattan-9780231172349","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}