{"product_id":"self-in-the-world-keith-hart-9781800734203","title":"Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eEminent anthropologist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Keith Hart draws on the humanities, popular culture and his own experiences to help readers explore their own place in history. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eFrom the introduction: \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Hart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1800734204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800734203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Keith Hart","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44053074641151,"sku":"9781800734203","price":179.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_96a65ec8-dbe3-425d-a77d-0e8e6ef85b29.jpg?v=1685022254","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/self-in-the-world-keith-hart-9781800734203","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}