{"product_id":"the-genealogical-imagination-9781478014072","title":"The Genealogical Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Jackson juxtaposes ethnographic and imaginative writing to explore intergenerational trauma and temporality, showing how genealogy becomes a powerful model for understanding our experience of being in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Michael Jackson has long been a source of inspiration for those of us interested in pushing the boundaries of anthropological writing, providing us with regular and often much-needed reminders of the high ethical stakes of such writerly experimentation. \u003ci\u003eThe Genealogical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e will be of immense interest to anthropologists, literary scholars, students and teachers of creative writing, and anyone interested in the expressive possibilities of writing as a means of exploring the ways in which humans exist in time.” -- Stuart McLean, author of * Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human *\u003cbr\u003e“I already have the sense that \u003ci\u003eThe Genealogical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e will not leave me alone in the years to come—that I will be haunted by it and worked upon by it in the way I am worked over by the stories of my own forebears. \u003ci\u003eThe Genealogical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthropological tour de force. It will inhabit the imagination of generations of anthropologists to come.” -- Lisa Stevenson, author of * Life beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreamble  1\u003cbr\u003e Chronicles of the Barawa Marah\u003cbr\u003e Being-in-Time  7\u003cbr\u003e Being of Two Minds  13\u003cbr\u003e Koinadugu  23\u003cbr\u003e Jihad and Colonization  33\u003cbr\u003e Albitaiya  36\u003cbr\u003e Primus inter Pares  41\u003cbr\u003e Lifelines and Lineages  45\u003cbr\u003e Prospero and Caliban  51\u003cbr\u003e Tina Komé  56\u003cbr\u003e Abdul's Reminiscences  63\u003cbr\u003e Limitrophes  71\u003cbr\u003e Noah's Story  78\u003cbr\u003e Taking Stock  89\u003cbr\u003e Ferensola  95\u003cbr\u003e S. B.'s Story  99\u003cbr\u003e After the War  107\u003cbr\u003e Within These Four Walls  111\u003cbr\u003e Passages  119\u003cbr\u003e Relationship and Relativity  122\u003cbr\u003e Endings  135\u003cbr\u003e Only Connect  152\u003cbr\u003e Transition  156\u003cbr\u003e Fathers and Sons\u003cbr\u003e Part 1\u003cbr\u003e Black Mountain  167\u003cbr\u003e Clearing Out the Garage  174\u003cbr\u003e A Hidden History  188\u003cbr\u003e New Lives for Old  191\u003cbr\u003e Billy  206\u003cbr\u003e The Wet  208\u003cbr\u003e Part II\u003cbr\u003e Aground on the Great Barrier  219\u003cbr\u003e University  223\u003cbr\u003e Maya  232\u003cbr\u003e Families  237\u003cbr\u003e Breaking Point  241\u003cbr\u003e Part III\u003cbr\u003e The Unanimous Night  253\u003cbr\u003e Weary Bay  259\u003cbr\u003e Bulbul  267\u003cbr\u003e Toby  270\u003cbr\u003e The Reef  281\u003cbr\u003e The Return  285\u003cbr\u003e Postscript  288\u003cbr\u003e Notes  293\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex to\u003c\/i\u003e Chronicles of the Barawa Marah  305","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408995033431,"sku":"9781478014072","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478014072.jpg?v=1730505012","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-genealogical-imagination-9781478014072","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}