The Politics of Storytelling :Variations on a Theme by Hannah Arendt - Critical Anthropology
The Politics of Storytelling :Variations on a Theme by Hannah Arendt - Critical Anthropology
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Hannah Arendt famously argued that politics are best understood as a power relationship between private and public realms. And storytelling, she argued, creates a vital bridge between these realms, a place where individual passions and shared perspectives can be contested and interwoven. In "The Politics of Storytelling", anthropologist Michael Jackson explores and expands on Arendt's notions, bringing stories from all around the world into impressive cross-cultural analysis. Jackson retells stories from the Kuranko in Sierre Leone, the Australian Aboriginals, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- by refugees, renegades, and war veterans. Focusing on the violent and volatile conditions under which stories are told -- or silenced -- he explores the power of narrative to remake reality, enabling people to symbolically alter their relations and help reclaim an existential viability. Above all, he shows how Arendt's writings on narrative deepen our understanding of the critical, therapeutic, and politic role of storytelling, that it is one of the crucial ways by which we understand one another.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9788763540360 |
| ISBN10 | 8763540363 |
| Number Of Pages | 312 |
| Item Weight | 567 g |
| Product Dimensions | 16 x 22 x 2 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Museum Tusculanum Press |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Second Edition |
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Michael Jackson's The Politics of Storytelling is a radical book for our time. I have never read a more compelling vision of how human beings creatively negotiate the borderlands between their private and public worlds. Not since Clifford Geertz has an anthropologist written with such innovative narrative skill, reaching beyond the academy to illuminate what is culturally at stake in our need to tell stories about the shared worlds we inhabit and remake. --David Carrasco, author of City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Vi