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On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise Kenneth Little

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise By Kenneth Little

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise by Kenneth Little

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On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses.

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise Summary

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize by Kenneth Little

There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise Reviews

Pushes anthropology to new levels, and in doing so argues profoundly for its relevance in an effort to understand the 21st century world as it is (troublingly) unfolding. This work pushes the reader to think in dense and complex ways about the tourism experience and all that it symbolizes. * Julia Harrison, Trent University

A pioneering work... ranks alongside such classic texts as Claude Levi-Strauss's Triste Tropiques, Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer, Paul Rabinow's Reflections on Fieldwork in Morroco and Jean-Paul Dumont's The Headman and I. * Sally Ann Ness, University of California

About Kenneth Little

Kenneth Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University in Toronto. His research focuses on the analysis of society as spectacle, the critical turn in anthropology to the study of affect, social creativity, experiments in ethnographic writing and performativity.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing Stories of Make-Belize

Chapter 1. For the Time is at Hand: Beast-Time Somet'ings
Chapter 2. Impossible Tropics
Chapter 3. Richie's Tourists
Chapter 4. Nowhere Paradise
Chapter 5. Belize Ephemera
Chapter 6. Belize Blues
Chapter 7. Parca's Picks

Epilogue: Belize Fabulations

Glossary
References
Index

Additional information

NGR9781789206463
9781789206463
1789206464
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize by Kenneth Little
Kenneth Little
New Directions in Anthropology
New
Hardback
Berghahn Books
2020-02-04
204
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