Michael Jackson is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School.
"A book that delivers to the reader, in graceful and at times
evocative prose, profound insights into the human condition with
all its vexing contradictions. Jackson has written a powerful
testimony to the human spirit."-- "Journal of Anthropological
Research"
"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."--Davíd Carrasco, author of City of Sacrifice:
The Aztec Empire and the Role of Vi
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