The Immensity of Being Singular: Approaching Migrant Lives in São Paulo Through Resonance - Couverture souple

Toji, Simone

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912808579 ISBN 13 : 9781912808571

Editeur : HAU Books, 2023

Synopsis

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 São 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HAU Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912808579
• ISBN 13: 9781912808571
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 70
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible