Excursions
Emphasizes the need for preconceptions and conventional mindsets to be replaced by the kind of open-minded critical engagement with the world that is the hallmark of cultural anthropology.
Print Book, English, 2008
Duke University Press ; Combined Academic [distributor], Durham, N.C., Chesham, 2008
295 pages ; 25 cm
9780822340546, 9780822340751, 0822340542, 0822340755
1062073459
Preface: theme and variations
In the footsteps of Walter Benjamin
Of time and the river : the interface of history and human lives
Imagining the powers that be : society versus the state
On the work of human hands
Storytelling events, violence, and the appearance of the past
Migrant imaginaries : with Sewa Koroma in southeast London
A walk on the wild side : the idea of human nature revisited
From anxiety to method : a reappraisal
Despite Babel : an essay on human misunderstanding
On birth, death, and rebirth
Quandaries of belonging : home thoughts from abroad
A critique of colonial reason