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Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives
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by Michael Jackson

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" . . . a model of judiciousness and integrative analysis . . . " --Research in African Literatures

Poet and anthropologist Michael Jackson brings to this study of the folktales of the Kuranko people of Sierra Leone a sensitivity to the philosophical nuances of literature.

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  • Title Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in Kuranko Narratives
  • Author Michael Jackson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 340
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington
  • Publication date 1982-11-22
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary
  • ISBN 9780253304711 / 0253304717
  • Weight 1.47 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.88 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.24 cm)
  • Reading level 1200
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Kuranko (African people), Kuranko (African people) - Folklore
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 81047772
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.209

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Michael D. Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many books include Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology; Between One and One Another; Road Markings: An Anthropologist in the Antipodes; and Things As They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology (IUP, 1996).

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