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Exploring the interplay of fate and freewill, this book delves into how literature shapes our lives and influences our writing. It posits that fate transcends mere circumstances of birth, advocating for writing as a means to reclaim agency amid life's challenges. By contrasting factuality with fiction, the author presents a radically empirical perspective on human experience, emphasizing the transformative power of literature in navigating our realities.

Exploring the multifaceted nature of friendship, Michael Jackson weaves together philosophy, biography, and ethnography. He begins with classical perspectives from Aristotle and Montaigne, then delves into the political and personal dimensions of friendship through the works of Hannah Arendt and the stories of Kuranko storyteller Keti Ferenke Koroma. Jackson reflects on various forms of friendship, including those from childhood and with animals, while addressing the complexities faced by anthropologists in balancing egalitarian ideals with inherent power dynamics in fieldwork.

Focusing on the challenges faced by Christians, this 30-day devotional offers guidance for navigating trauma and crisis through a Biblical lens. It emphasizes that even the strongest believers can experience discouragement but can find hope and comfort in God's word. Each day's reflection aims to tackle specific obstacles affecting mental and spiritual health, encouraging readers to gain renewed insight and healing. By viewing life's difficulties through God's perspective, believers are reminded of the sufficiency of His grace.

Most people have a story to tell about a remarkable coincidence that in some instances changed the course of their lives. These uncanny occurrences have been variously interpreted as evidence of divine influence, fate, or the collective unconscious. Less common are explanations that explore the social situations and personal preoccupations of the individuals who place the most weight on coincidences. Drawing on a variety of coincidence stories, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson builds a case for seeing them as allegories of separation and loss—revealing the hope of repairing sundered lives, reconnecting estranged friends, reuniting distant kin, closing the gap between people and their gods, and achieving a sense of emotional and social connectedness with others in a fragmented world.

Michael Jackson juxtaposes ethnographic and imaginative writing to explore intergenerational trauma and temporality, showing how genealogy becomes a powerful model for understanding our experience of being in the world.

A blistering original musical about a young artist at war with a host of demons. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the Tony Awards.

Quandaries of Belonging is both a personal meditation on the author's relationship with Aotearoa New Zealand and a critical exploration of coexistence in a postcolonial society.

Michael Jackson's response to our beleaguered age is to ask what forms of speech and action are called for in 'dark times'. He argues that experiences that fall outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible have both critical and redemptive power.

In How Lifeworlds Work, distinguished anthropologist of religion Michael Jackson starts from the premise that individual well-being and social viability depend on a vital relationship between inner and outer realities, self and other, desire and constraint. In asking how lifeworlds 'work, ' Jackson wants to trace the production of one's individual and communal life while also understanding how people create emotionally satisfying lives through reciprocal relations with people, objects, animals, and ideas. In other words, how do the ritual structures of the outer and the emotional structures of the inner meet? Jackson brings his signature phenomenological approach to bear on the issue of how the dynamic, temporally inflected tension between order and affect is negotiated. By mixing ethnography, philosophy, and personal reflection, Jackson produces a work that is in some ways his definitive and most intimate statement on a lifetime of study.

The author shares a deeply personal journey through the challenges of bipolar disorder, detailing the devastating impact it had on his life and family. After a transformative awakening, he felt compelled to write this testimony to help others facing similar struggles. His story highlights the importance of seeking proper treatment, which enabled him to overcome addiction and rebuild his life. Now dedicated to assisting at-risk youth and addressing mental health issues, he emphasizes that with faith and determination, recovery and hope are attainable for everyone.