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Life within limits : well-being in a world of want

Title
Life within limits : well-being in a world of want / Michael Jackson.
Author
Jackson, Michael, 1940-
Publication
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.

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Description
xiii, 230 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Happiness > Sierra Leone
  • Well-being > Sierra Leone
  • Poverty > Sierra Leone
  • Sierra Leone > Civilization
  • Sierra Leone > Economic conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Imagining Firawa -- Fathers and sons -- Forty days -- Scenes from a marriage -- Smoke and mirrors -- Things hidden since the foundation of the world -- The reopening of the gate of effort -- Something's missing -- The politics of storytelling -- The road to Kabala -- Their eyes were watching God -- Albitaiya -- The year of supernatural abundance -- Strings attached -- The shape of the inconstruable question -- Not to find one's way in a city -- Coda.
Call Number
Sc E 11-532
ISBN
  • 9780822348924 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822348926 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822349150 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822349159 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010035866
OCLC
YBP 2010035866
Author
Jackson, Michael, 1940-
Title
Life within limits : well-being in a world of want / Michael Jackson.
Imprint
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 11-532
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