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Pursuits of Happiness
eBook - Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective
ISBN/EAN: 9781845458775
Umbreit-Nr.: 2285996
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 290 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.12.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p> 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-beingdefined as the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a societyand 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.</p>
- Kurztext
- 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 &quote;the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a society&quote;-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.
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b>Carolina Izquierdo</b> is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research has centered on health and well-being among the Matsigenka in the Peruvian Amazon, the Mapuche in Chile, and middle-class families in the United States.</p>