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Waiting (Academic Monographs)

By Ghassan Hage

Book information

Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0522856934, 9780522856934
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
793 kB (812052 bytes)
Series
Academic Monographs
Pages
256\256
Topic
Art Graphic Arts
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this rich and insightful collection of essays, leading anthropologist Ghassan Hage brings together academics across political science, philosophy, anthropology and sociology for an examination into the experience of waiting. What is it to wait? What do we wait for? And how is waiting connected to the social worlds in which we live?From Beckett's darkly comic play Waiting for Godot, to the perpetual waiting of refugees to return home or to moments of intense anticipation such as falling in love or the birth of a baby, there are many ways in which we wait. This compelling collection of essays suggests that this experience is among the essential conditions that make us human and connect us to others.

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