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The Palm at the End of the Mind: Relatedness, Religiosity, and the Real

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In many societies and for many people, religiosity is only incidentally connected with texts or theologies, church or mosque, temple or monastery. Drawing on a lifetime of ethnographic work among people for whom religion is not principally a matter of faith, doctrine, or definition, Michael Jackson turns his attention to those situations in life where we come up against the limits of language, our strength, and our knowledge, yet are sometimes thrown open to new ways of understanding our being-in-the-world, to new ways of connecting with others. Through sixty-one beautifully crafted essays based on sojourns in Europe, West Africa, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, and taking his cue from Wallace Stevens’s late poem, “Of Mere Being,” Jackson explores a range of experiences where “the palm at the end of the mind” stands “beyond thought,” on “the edge of space,” “a foreign song.” Moments of crisis as well as everyday experiences in cafés, airports, and offices disclose the subtle ways in which a single life shades into others, the boundaries between cultures become blurred, fate unfolds through genealogical time, elective affinities make their appearance, and different values contend.

Table of Contents:
Preface xi 1. Ancestral Roots The Real 1 Only Connect 2 93 Irving Street 4 Reconnecting 8 Missed Connections 11 Tertium Quid 14 The Dead 19 Mind the Gap 23 The Genealogical Imagination 29 The Penumbral 34 After Midnight 38 Second Skins 40 On Not Severing the Vine When Harvesting the Grapes 42 Corrupted Con-texts 46 The Broken Heart 48 2. Primary Bonds Incarnations 52 The Matrixial 57 A Letter from Athens 61 Emily's Journal 62 Beginnings 65 The Pain in Painting 69 Paths 73 Parallel Lives 75 My Lunch with arthur 81 The Wellness Narratives 84 Night 94 Outside the Window 98 "What Really Matters" 99 3. Elective Affinities Knots 103 Marina del Rey 106 In Limbo 108 In Media Res 108 In Wellington 112 The Enigma of Anteriority 116 Survivor Guilt 119 Ventifact 123 Measured Talk 129 Heaven and Hell 131 Manifest Destiny 134 The Nature of Things 148 The Road of Excess 159 The Eternal Ones of the Dream 162 Strange Lights 15 Recognitions 168 The Other Portion 173 It Happens 176 Ships That Pass in the Night 178 4. Competing Values Cafe Stelling 182 Value Judgments 184 The Bottle Imp 189 Marginal Notes 193 A Storyteller's Story 195 Big Thing and Small Thing 200 Sacrifice 203 Prince Vessantara 208 The Girl Who Went Beneath the Water 210 Ill-Gotten Gains 216 Is Nothing Sacred? 221 Return to the Cafe Stelling 229 Metanoia 232 The Place Where We Live 236 Acknowledgments 239

About the Author :
Michael Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor in World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many books of anthropology include Excursions, In Sierra Leone, and At Home in the World, all also published by Duke University Press. He is the author of a memoir, six books of poetry, and two novels.

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"Elegant and harrowing, this book from renowned ethnographer Michael Jackson takes us to the borderlands of human experience, where normal habits of thought and rules of social location are lost or ruptured, 'where we confront sides of ourselves that ordinarily do not see the light of day, yet from which new modes of consciousness may take shape.' As Jackson moves fluidly between storytelling, poetry, memoir, metaphysics, social commentary, interior exploration, and existential reflection, we travel with him around the globe and through incongruous histories: 'penumbral domains' that he argues do not belong exclusively to the language of religion, or even to language itself. The Palm at the End of the Mind insists on the integrity of transmutations, even terrible ones, for these are still eternally precious and deeply true. It bears witness to the cosmic connections forged in such mystery, refusing to let us look away. Long after its last page, it haunts, it sings, it prophesies. This is a brilliant ethnography of the heart." Kimberley Patton, Harvard Divinity School "The Palm at the End of the Mind is a marvelous work of deep scholarly and artistic significance. Michael Jackson reflects on those things--love, loss, pain, courage, resilience--that define the human condition. Bringing a lifetime of work in anthropology to bear, he provides a rich description of the irreducible dynamics of living in social worlds that are in continuous flux."--Paul Stoller, author of The Power of the Between: An Anthropological Odyssey


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  • ISBN-13: 9780822343592
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Relatedness, Religiosity, and the Real
  • ISBN-10: 0822343592
  • Publisher Date: 20 Feb 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 256


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