 | Harmattan: A Philosophical Fiction Subjects: Kuranko (African people -- Social life and customs; Kuranko (African people) -- Folklore; Ethnology -- Sierra Leone; Jackson Michael 1940– -- Travel -- Sierra Leone; Philosophical anthropology; A compelling work of ethnography, memoir, and fiction that explores the emancipatory power of transcending boundaries. Michael Jackson is Distinguished Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone, the Warlpiri of Central Australia, the Kuku-Yalanji of Cape York Peninsula, and with African migrants in Europe. He is the author of more than thirty books on ethnography, poetry, and fiction, including the prize-winning Paths Toward a Clearing: Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Inquiry and At Home in the World. |
