Description
| Product ID: | 9781487526405 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CA |
| Series: | ethnoGRAPHIC |
| Title: | Light in Dark Times |
| Subtitle: | The Human Search for Meaning |
| Authors: | Author: Alisse Waterston, Charlotte Corden |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, The Arts: treatments and subjects, Cultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Art treatments & subjects, Cultural studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating At once historical and allegorical, Light in Dark Times is an illustrated ride crossing time, space, and place as the characters walk a difficult path while grasping a lifeline of hope on a journey through knowledge. What will become of us in these trying times? How will we pass the time that we have on earth? In gorgeously rendered graphic form, Light in Dark Times invites readers to consider these questions by exploring the political catastrophes and moral disasters of the past and present, revealing issues that beg to be studied, understood, confronted, and resisted. A profound work of anthropology and art, this book is for anyone yearning to understand the darkness and hoping to hold onto the light. It is a powerful story of encounters with writers, philosophers, activists, and anthropologists whose words are as meaningful today as they were during the times in which they were written. This book is at once a lament over the darkness of our times, an affirmation of the value of knowledge and introspection, and a consideration of truth, lies, and the dangers of the trivial. In a time when many of us struggle with the feeling that we cannot do enough to change the course of the future, this book is a call to action, asking us to envision and create an alternative world from the one in which we now live. Light in Dark Times is beautiful to look at and to hold – an exquisite work of art that is lively, informative, enlightening, deeply moving, and inspiring. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Toronto Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Toronto Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-09-17 |
