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Waiting (Academic Monographs)
Ghassan Hage
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Description for Waiting (Academic Monographs)
Paperback. Editor(s): Hage, Ghassan. Series: Academic Monographs. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Academic Monographs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522856934
SKU
V9780522856934
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About Ghassan Hage
Ghassan Hage is Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne. He has held many visiting professorships around the world including at Harvard and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of many publications on the comparative anthropology of nationalism, migration and inter-cultural relations.
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