Name: Friendship
SKU: 54975411
Price: 1078.00 TWD
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Author: Michael Jackson
ISBN: 9781512824124

Type

Physical Book

Author

Michael Jackson

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6x15x1.8 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781512824124

Synopsis "Friendship"

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship--a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love. Beginning with Aristotle's accounts of friendship as a political virtue and Montaigne's famous essay on friendship as a form of love, Jackson examines the tension between the political and personal resonances of friendship in the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and the oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He offers reflections on childhood friends, imaginary friends, lifelong friendships, and friendships with animals. He ruminates particularly on the complications of friendship in the context of anthropological fieldwork, exploring the contradiction between the egalitarian spirit of friendship on the one hand and, on the other, the power imbalance between ethnographers and their interlocutors. Through these stories, Jackson explores the unpredictable interplay of mutability and mutuality in intimate human relationships, and the critical importance of choice in forming friendship--what it means to be loyal to friends through good times and bad, and even in the face of danger. Through a blend of memoir, theory, ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age, and offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a measure of our own self-worth.

Michael Jackson

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Michael Jackson (Michael Joseph Jackson) fue un cantante, compositor y autor estadounidense, ampliamente reconocido como una de las figuras más influyentes de la música popular. Inició su carrera en la infancia como parte de The Jackson 5 y, posteriormente, desarrolló una trayectoria solista que redefinió el pop moderno. Su estilo combinó innovación musical, coreografías icónicas y una fuerte presencia visual, consolidándolo como un referente cultural global. Además de su impacto artístico, exploró la escritura autobiográfica como una extensión de su identidad pública y creativa.

Es autor de Moonwalk (1988), una autobiografía donde relata su ascenso a la fama, su proceso creativo y aspectos íntimos de su vida personal y profesional. La obra ofrece una mirada directa a su visión artística y a las exigencias de la industria musical. Ganador de múltiples premios, incluidos varios premios Grammy, Jackson dejó un legado que trasciende la música, influyendo en generaciones de artistas y en la forma en que se entiende el espectáculo a escala global.

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