Description
In this powerful new work, Simone Toji reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself. Recovering Bronislaw Malinowski's idea of the "imponderabilia of actual life" as an inspiring ethnographic attitude, she shows how lives are composed through moments of indecision, opacity, and incongruity that make them irreducibly open ended. The singular lives of four migrants, from Paraguay, South Korea, and Bolivia, are rendered as journeys across the city of S o Paulo, interspersed with resonant explorations of the power of life's invention and reinvention as part of the human condition. This important new book is a major contribution to migration studies, social and cultural anthropology, and the social sciences as a whole, and will appeal to readers from the undergraduate level through the doctoral.
Author: Simone Toji
Publisher: Hau
Published: 09/29/2023
Pages: 169
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
ISBN13: 9781912808571
ISBN10: 1912808579
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
Author: Simone Toji
Publisher: Hau
Published: 09/29/2023
Pages: 169
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
ISBN13: 9781912808571
ISBN10: 1912808579
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
About the Author
Simone Toji is a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional in Rio de Janeiro and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.