The Immensity of Being Singular: Approaching Migrant Lives in São Paulo Through Resonance

By Simone Toji

In this powerful new work, Simone Toji reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself. Recovering Bronislaw Malinowski's idea of the "imponderabilia of actual life" as an inspiring ethnographic attitude, she shows how lives are composed through moments of indecision, opacity, and incongruity that make them irreducibly open ended. The singular lives of five migrants, from Paraguay, South Korea, China, and Bolivia, are rendered as journeys across the city of Sao Paulo, interspersed with resonant explorations of the power of life's invention and reinvention as a part of the human condition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912808579
• ISBN13: 9781912808571
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Hau
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"