Acknowledgements
    Preface
    Introduction

    PART ONE - On Making a Life

  1. Autoethnographic sketches
  2. On the ignorant, teaching the ignorant
  3. A case in point: “Covid 19” or “Corona”?

    4. PART TWO - in America

  4. Popular culture as commentary on the struggles of everyday life in America and beyond (n=6)
  5. Confusion in the American city (n=10)
  6. Policing schooling and assessing consequences

    7. PART THREE - with Anthropology

  7. What is anthropology good for
  8. Anthropology on education
  9. On the foundations of anthropological practice: ethnography
  10. A case study: an ethnographer in Port-au-Prince
  11. On social scientific blinders to the activity or all in everyday life
  12. Conumdrums in the anthropological polity of practice
  13. Particular conumdrums about "family"

    14. PART FOUR - Hoping

  14. In hope

    15.  

    References
    Author index
    Subject index