Paths Toward a Clearing: Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Inquiry (African Systems of Thought) by Jackson, Michael - 1989

Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.: Indiana University Press, 1989. This book explores our shifting sense of ourselves as subjects and as objects, drawing on William James' radical empiricism, together with existentialism and critical theory, to broaden the notion of experience to include personal reflection as well as ethnographic description; based on his fieldwork among the Kuranko of northeastern Sierra Leone, the author explores the relationship between the particular and the universal, to show how human beings everywhere address problems and cope with existence (green & white cover with red & green lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Fine.