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Author Jackson, Michael, 1940- author.

Title At home in the world / Michael Jackson
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1995
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 188 pages)
Summary "Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home?" Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for an answer to this question might lead to a new way of thinking about home and homelessness, exile and belonging. At Home in the World is the story of just such a search. Intermittently, over a period of three years, Michael Jackson lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Central Australia. This book chronicles his experience among the Warlpiri of the Tanami Desert." "Something of a nomad himself, having lived in New Zealand, Sierra Leone, England, France, Australia, and the United States, Jackson is deft at capturing the ambiguities of home as a lived experience among the Warlpiri. Blending narrative ethnography, empirical research, philosophy, and poetry, he focuses on the existential meaning of being at home in the world. Here home becomes a metaphor for the intimate relationship between the part of the world a person calls "self" and the part of the world called "other." To speak of "at-homeness," Jackson suggests, implies that people everywhere try to strike a balance between closure and openness, between acting and being acted upon, between acquiescing in the given and choosing their own fate. His book is an exhilarating journey into this existential struggle, responsive at every turn to the political questions of equity and justice that such a struggle entails. A moving depiction of an aboriginal culture at once at home and in exile, and a personal meditation on the practice of ethnography and the meaning of home in our increasingly rootless age, At Home in the World is a timely reflection on how, in defining home, we continue to define ourselves."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188)
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Subject Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Social conditions
Philosophy, Warlpiri.
Home -- Philosophy
Homelessness -- Philosophy
Homeless persons -- Philosophy
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Home -- Philosophy
Philosophy, Warlpiri
Homelessness -- Philosophy
Erlebnisbericht
Warlpiri (Australian people) -- Social conditions
Walbiri (volk)
Nomaden.
Wereldbeschouwing.
Warlpiri (peuple d'Australie) -- Conditions sociales.
Philosophie walbiri.
Domicile -- Philosophie.
Sans-abri -- Philosophie.
Walbiri.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822396123
0822396122
9790822325382