Description
| Product ID: | 9781789206463 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | New Directions in Anthropology |
| Title: | On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise |
| Subtitle: | Affect, Tourism, Belize |
| Authors: | Author: Kenneth Little |
| Page Count: | 204 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Teaching of students with learning difficulties, Teaching of students with specific learning difficulties / needs, Belize |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-02-04 |
