Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822349159
ISBN13:9780822349150
Release Date:February 2011
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"
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