Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want
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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| spelling | Jackson, Michael Verfasser aut Life Within Limits Well-being in a World of Want Michael Jackson Durham Duke University Press [2011] © 2011 1 online resource (245 pages) 20 photographs txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020) 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 In English SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social bisacsh Happiness Sierra Leone Poverty Sierra Leone Well-being Sierra Leone https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393696 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext DNB Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=032456544&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Jackson, Michael Life Within Limits Well-being in a World of Want SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social bisacsh Happiness Sierra Leone Poverty Sierra Leone Well-being Sierra Leone |
| title | Life Within Limits Well-being in a World of Want |
| title_auth | Life Within Limits Well-being in a World of Want |
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| title_full | Life Within Limits Well-being in a World of Want Michael Jackson |
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| title_short | Life Within Limits |
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| title_sub | Well-being in a World of Want |
| topic | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social bisacsh Happiness Sierra Leone Poverty Sierra Leone Well-being Sierra Leone |
| topic_facet | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Happiness Sierra Leone Poverty Sierra Leone Well-being Sierra Leone |
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