Self in the World : : Connecting Life's Extremes / / Keith Hart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Hart, Keith,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)

Eminent anthropologist Keith Hart draws on the humanities, popular culture and his own experiences to help readers explore their own place in history. We each embark on two life journeys – one out into the world, the other inward to the self. With these journeys in mind, anthropologist, amateur economist and globetrotter Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life’s extremes – individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human. “This is a work of great originality. Keith Hart has had an unorthodox academic career and it has liberated him in many ways from academic pieties. His background in African ethnography gives him a fascinating angle on all sorts of things, not least the possibility of a more African-influenced global future. The book is full of surprises and mind-shifting observations. I actually couldn't put it down.”—Sherry B. Ortner, UCLA From the introduction: People have many sides, but I will focus here on two. Each of us is a biological organism with a historical personality that together make us a unique individual. But we cannot live outside society which shapes us in unfathomable ways. Human beings must learn to be self-reliant (not self-interested) in small and large ways: no-one will brush your teeth for you or save you from being run over while crossing the street. We each must also learn to belong to others, merging personal identity in a plethora of social relations and categories. Modern ideology insists that being individual and mutual is problematic. The culture of capitalist societies anticipates a conflict between them. Yet they are inseparable aspects of human nature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHRONOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I ANCESTORS -- Chapter 1 WRITING THE SELF A Genealogy -- Chapter 2 ANTHROPOLOGY’S FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS -- Chapter 3 THE ANTI-COLONIAL INTELLECTUALS Th inking New Worlds -- Part II SELF -- Chapter 4 I COME FROM MANCHESTER -- Chapter 5 THE ESCALATOR Grammar School and Cambridge -- Chapter 6 AN AFRICAN APPRENTICESHIP -- Chapter 7 THE DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRY -- Chapter 8 LEARNING TO FLY IN AMERICA -- Chapter 9 BACK TO CAMBRIDGE Caribbean Interlude -- Chapter 10 WHEN THE WORLD TURNED -- Chapter 11 RESTART IN PARIS AND DURBAN -- Chapter 12 HEALTH PROBLEMS -- Part III WORLD -- Chapter 13 MOVEMENT AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF APARTHEID -- Chapter 14 AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION -- Chapter 15 ECONOMIES CONNECTING LOCAL AND GLOBAL HUMANITY -- Chapter 16 AFRICA (1800–2100) Waiti ng for Emancipation -- Part IV LIFELONG LEARNING -- Chapter 17 AFTER THE BRITISH EMPIRE Politics and Education -- Chapter 18 EXPLORATIONS IN TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY -- Chapter 19 MONEY IS HOW WE LEARN TO BE MORE FULLY HUMAN -- Chapter 20 LEARNING, REMEMBERING AND SHARING -- AFTERWORD -- APPENDIX Hart Papers Online (By Year) -- REFERENCES -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX