At Home in the World

This title is now presented in paperback. Ours is an era 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. First published by Duke University Press in 1995, "At Home in the World" is the story of just such a search, chronicling Jackson's experience among the Warlpiri of the Tanami Desert in Central Australia where he lived, worked, and traveled intermittently over three years. Blending narrative ethnography, empirical research, philosophy, and poetry, Jackson construes the meaning of home existentially, as a metaphor for the balance people try to strike between the world they call their own and the world they see as 'other'. Home is never a stable essence, therefore, but a constantly negotiated relationship between being closed and open, acting and being acted upon. At once a moving depiction of an aboriginal culture, and a meditation on the practice of anthropology, "At Home in the World" is a timely reflection on how, in defining home, we continue to define ourselves.

ISBN 0822325381   Pages 208 ISBN13 9780822325383 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Duke University Press   Weight (grammes) 318 Imprint Duke University Press   Published in North Carolina Format Paperback   Height (mm) 235 Publication date 01 Nov 2000   Width (mm) 139 Library of Congress DU125   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY 301   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

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