Michael Jackson is a graduate of the Universities of Auckland (New Zealand and Cambridge (UK), and has, for many years, carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Sierra Leone and Aboriginal Australia. The author of numerous books of anthropology, including the prize-winning Paths Toward a Clearing and At Home in the World, he has also published five books of poetry and two novels. Michael Jackson has taught in his native New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Denmark, where he is presently Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.

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Preface: The Struggle for Being

Chapter 1. The Course of an Event
Chapter 2. The Space of Appearances
Chapter 3. Violence and Intersubjective Reason
Chapter 4. Custom and Conflict in Sierra Leone: An Essay on Anarchy
Chapter 5. What's in a Name? An Essay on the Power of Words
Chapter 6. Mundane Ritual
Chapter 7. Biotechnology and the Critique of Globalisation
Chapter 8. Familiar and Foreign Bodies
Chapter 9. The Prose of Suffering
Chapter 10. Whose Human Rights?
Chapter 11. Existential Imperatives

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Index