Excursions

by Michael D. Jackson

Book Overview

A village in Sierra Leone. A refugee trail over the Pyrenees in French Catalonia. A historic copper mine in Sweden. The Shuf mountains in Lebanon. The Swiss Alps. The heart of the West African diaspora in southeast London. The anthropologist Michael Jackson makes his sojourns to each of these far-flung locations, and to his native New Zealand, occasions for exploring the contradictions and predicaments of social existence. He calls his explorations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822340755
• ISBN13: 9780822340751
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"