Beschreibung:
Michael Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor in World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many books of anthropology include Excursions, In Sierra Leone, and At Home in the World, all also published by Duke University Press. He is the author of a memoir, six books of poetry, and two novels.
A meditation on "border situations," such as birth, death, and crisis, where boundaries between cultures and individuals become blurred.