How To Live With Each Other
An Anthropologist's Notes on Sharing a Divided World
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-78816-390-3 (ISBN)
Description
Increasingly, we think and act as if the divides between us are unbridgeable: rather than reaching out and finding paths to reconciliation, we bunker down, create filter bubbles, build walls and gentrify neighbourhoods in a great rush to find our tribe and isolate ourselves within it. As crisis after crisis hits us, we find ourselves unable to agree even on what is happening around us, much less on how we should act.
Here, anthropologist Farhan Samanani mixes case studies from across the world with his own research to provide insights into not just how we behave - but why. Using his anthropologist's toolkit, he explores how we got here, and casts fresh light on how we can cultivate common ground and not just live but flourish together.
Here, anthropologist Farhan Samanani mixes case studies from across the world with his own research to provide insights into not just how we behave - but why. Using his anthropologist's toolkit, he explores how we got here, and casts fresh light on how we can cultivate common ground and not just live but flourish together.
Reviews / Votes
Fascinating and important ... his scope and range of reference is extensive and worldwide -- Ian Duhig * Irish Times * Extract: How can we live with those who are different from us? This is an old question and a tricky one. It may also be the most urgent problem of the twenty-first century ... this is a book about the past, the present and the future - about an old, familiar story that we continue to repeat, but also about how we might rewrite the script. * How To Live With Each Other *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78816-390-3 (9781788163903)
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E-Book
03/2022
Profile Books Ltd
€18.49
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Person
Born in Canada, Farhan Samanani has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, where he studied as a Gates Cambridge Scholar - a small group of international graduate students selected for their potential to create positive social change. He has degrees from the University of St Andrews and Oxford, and has written for Aeon, Open Democracy, and Huffington Post.