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Book Synopsis Stranger in the Village of the Sick by : Paul Stoller
Download or read book Stranger in the Village of the Sick written by Paul Stoller and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than fifty years of good health, anthropologist Paul Stoller suddenly found himself diagnosed with lymphoma. The only thing more transformative than his fear and dread of cancer was the place it ultimately took him: twenty-five years back in time to his days as an apprentice to a West African sorcerer, Adamu Jenitongo. Stranger in the Village of the Sick follows Stoller down this unexpected path toward personal discovery, growth, and healing. The stories here are about life in the village of the healthy and the village of the sick, and they highlight differences in how illness is culturally perceived. In America and the West, illness is war; we strive to eradicate it from our bodies and lives. In West Africa, however, illness is an ever-present companion, and sorcerers learn to master illnesses like cancer through a combination of acceptance, pragmatism, and patience. Stoller provides a view into the ancient practices of sorcery, revealing that as an apprentice he learned to read divining shells, mix potions, and recite incantations. But it wasn't until he got cancer that he realized that sorcery embodied a more profound meaning, one that every person could use: "Sorcery is a body of knowledge and practice that enables one to see things clearly and to walk with confidence on the path of fear."
Book Synopsis The Power of the Between by : Paul Stoller
Download or read book The Power of the Between written by Paul Stoller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the anthropologist’s fate to always be between things: countries, languages, cultures, even realities. But rather than lament this, anthropologist Paul Stoller here celebrates the creative power of the between, showing how it can transform us, changing our conceptions of who we are, what we know, and how we live in the world. Beginning with his early days with the Peace Corps in Africa and culminating with a recent bout with cancer, The Power of the Between is an evocative account of the circuitous path Stoller’s life has taken, offering a fascinating depiction of how a career is shaped over decades of reading and research. Stoller imparts his accumulated wisdom not through grandiose pronouncements but by drawing on his gift for storytelling. Tales of his apprenticeship to a sorcerer in Niger, his studies with Claude Lévi-Strauss in Paris, and his friendships with West African street vendors in New York City accompany philosophical reflections on love, memory, power, courage, health, and illness. Graced with Stoller’s trademark humor and narrative elegance, The Power of the Between is both the story of a distinguished career and a profound meditation on coming to terms with the impermanence of all things.
Book Synopsis Chronic Illness, Vulnerability and Social Work by : Liz Price
Download or read book Chronic Illness, Vulnerability and Social Work written by Liz Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease. This innovative volume redresses the balance by exploring chronic illness and social work, through the specific lens of autoimmunity, engaging in wider debates around vulnerability, resistance and the lived experience of ongoing ill-health. Moving beyond existing conceptualisations of vulnerability as an issue of mental distress, ageing, child protection and poverty, Price and Walker demonstrate the role that society has to play in actively engaging the physical body, rather than working around and through it. The book focuses on auto-immune conditions such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma. Conditions like these allow for an exploration of the materiality of illness which exacerbates social and economic vulnerability and may precipitate personal and social crises, requiring a variety of interventions and support. The risks and challenges associated with chronic illness include disruptions to a sense of self and identity, altered relationships and the renegotiation of roles and responsibilities in a variety of relationships in addition to an economic impact, with the potential for disruption to employment status and financial insecurity. This text opens up a range of debates around some of the central concerns of the social work profession, including vulnerability, ill-health, and independence. It will be of interest to scholars and students of social work, nursing, disability studies, medicine and the social sciences.
Book Synopsis Adventures in Blogging by : Paul Stoller
Download or read book Adventures in Blogging written by Paul Stoller and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Stoller has been writing a popular blog for the Huffington Post since 2011. Blogging, says Stoller, allows him to bring an anthropological perspective to contemporary debates, but it also makes him a better writer: snappier, more concise, and more focused on the connection he wants to make with readers. In this collection of selected blog posts, Stoller models good writing while sharing his insights on politics (including the emergence of "Trumpism" and the impact of ignorance on US political practices), higher education, social science, media, and well-being. In the process, he discusses the changing nature of scholarly communication and the academy’s need for greater public engagement.
Book Synopsis Light at Evening Time; or, Narratives of missionary labour amongst the sick. [The preface signed: A. B. C.] by : A. B. C.
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Book Synopsis Connecting Boys with Books by : Michael Sullivan
Download or read book Connecting Boys with Books written by Michael Sullivan and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2003-05-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Librarian and educator Michael Sullivan provides the tools that librarians, school library media specialists, and educators need to overcome cultural and developmental challenges, stereotyping, and lack of role models that essentially program boys out of the library. Attracting boys to library programs in the "tween" years will maintain their interest in books and reading over a lifetime, creating good health habits from a young age. Sullivan's practical and proven programming builds on the unique developmental needs and interests of boys in this middle stage. From playing chess to swathing the walls in butcher paper to give boys a physical space to respond to books, Sullivan's practical ideas and developmentally astute insights show librarian and teacher colleagues how to make vitally needed connections with this underserved population.
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Book Synopsis The Night Strangers by : Chris Bohjalian
Download or read book The Night Strangers written by Chris Bohjalian and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight 1611 die on impact or drown. The body count? Thirty-nine – a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village – self-proclaimed herbalists – and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters. Are the women mad? Or is it her husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity has become desperately tenuous? The result is a poignant and powerful ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply. The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead.
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Book Synopsis The Stranger in the Woods by : Michael Finkel
Download or read book The Stranger in the Woods written by Michael Finkel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality—not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own. “A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival.” —The Wall Street Journal In 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothing, reading material, and other provisions, taking only what he needed but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life—why did he leave? what did he learn?—as well as the challenges he has faced since returning to the world. It is a gripping story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude, community, and what makes a good life, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way, and succeeded.
Book Synopsis Ordinances and By-laws of the Village of Dexter by : Dexter (Mich.)
Download or read book Ordinances and By-laws of the Village of Dexter written by Dexter (Mich.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies in Religion, Folk-lore, & Custom in British North Borneo and the Malay Peninsula by : Ivor Hugh Norman Evans
Download or read book Studies in Religion, Folk-lore, & Custom in British North Borneo and the Malay Peninsula written by Ivor Hugh Norman Evans and published by Biblio Distribution Centre. This book was released on 1923 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, and of His Man, Mark Antony O'Toole, Etc. [Illustrated.] by : William Hamilton Maxwell
Download or read book The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, and of His Man, Mark Antony O'Toole, Etc. [Illustrated.] written by William Hamilton Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, and his man Mark Antony O'Toole by : William Hamilton Maxwell
Download or read book The fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, and his man Mark Antony O'Toole written by William Hamilton Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Durrington Detective Agency by : Derek McMillan
Download or read book Durrington Detective Agency written by Derek McMillan and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of a dozen detective stories. It introduces the Durrington Detective Agency and the heroes, Craig McLairy, Micah McLairy and Barker who is sometimes called Hairy McLairy to differentiate him from bald Craig. There are a host of other characters who fulfil the role of murderer, murderee or that classic in detective fiction the red herring. We were inspired by Jeanne M Dams whose detective stories are referred to as 'cozy'. All that means is that there is no graphic sex or violence. The same term could apply to most of Agatha Christie's books. I do hope this book does not make Durrington into an equivalent of Oxford, Midsomer or anything in the orbit of Miss Marple - a place where you won't live long. I live in Durrington and I have not been murdered even once.Many of the locations are real. The John Selden for example is a first-rate pub and within walking distance of our home which is convenient. All the references to people are fictitious.
Book Synopsis A Handbook for Revenue Officers in the Presidency of Bombay by : Alexander Kyd Nairne
Download or read book A Handbook for Revenue Officers in the Presidency of Bombay written by Alexander Kyd Nairne and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book International Review of Missions written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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