Waiting by Ghassan Hage - ISBN: 9780522856934
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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…

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    256 pages

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    15 July 2009

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Summary

This compelling collection of essays suggests that this experience is among the essential conditions that make us human and connect us to others.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 d…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522856934
ISBN-10:0522856934
Author:Ghassan Hage
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:15 July 2009
Weight:320g
Dimensions:208mm x 134mm x 15mm
Series:Academic Monographs
About The Author

Ghassan Hage

Ghassan Hage is professor of anthropology and social theory at the University of Melbourne. He has held many international visiting professorships including at Harvard, at The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, The University of Copenhagen and The American University of Beirut. He works in the areas of comparative nationalism, racism and multiculturalism. He is the author of many publications in this domain; most known among them is White Nation- Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (Routledge 2000). He also works in social theory with a particular interest in the work of Pierre Bourdieu.

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