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Gordon Mathews, Carolina Izquierdo - Pursuits of Happiness, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Pursuits of Happiness

Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective

Av Gordon Mathews, Carolina Izquierdo

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Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic examination of well-being—defined as “the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a society”—and the comparison of well-being within and across societies is a new and important area for anthropological inquiry. Distinctly different in different places, but also reflecting our common humanity, well-being is intimately linked to the idea of happiness and its pursuits. Noted anthropological researchers have come together in this volume to examine well-being in a range of diverse ways and to investigate it in a range of settings: from the Peruvian Amazon, the Australian outback, and the Canadian north, to India, China, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2009-11-01
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 395 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 290
  • Förlag: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 9781845457082
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Gordon Mathews is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (1996) and Global Culture /Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000), and co-written Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation (2007); he has co-edited Consuming Hong Kong (2001) and Japan’s Changing Generations (2004).

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“The chapters …are very clearly written…and provide a wealth of materials illuminating diverse understandings of bodily, interpersonal, and existential dimensions of well-being, and how these are fostered and threatened in particular social-cultural settings and in relation to national institutions and global forces.”  ·  Journal of Anthropological Research

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