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Pursuits of Happiness : Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective / ed. by Carolina Izquierdo, Gordon Mathews.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845454487
  • 9781845458775
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.09 22
LOC classification:
  • HN25 .P87 2009
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction ANTHROPOLOGY, HAPPINESS, AND WELL-BEING -- PART ONE. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- 1 WHY ANTHROPOLOGY CAN ILL AFFORD TO IGNORE WELL-BEING -- 2 IS A MEASURE OF CULTURAL WELL-BEING POSSIBLE OR DESIRABLE? -- PART TWO. WELL-BEING IN SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES -- 3 WELL-BEING AMONG THE MATSIGENKA OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON Health, Missions, Oil, and “Progress” -- 4 EMBODIED SELVES AND SOCIAL SELVES Aboriginal Well-Being in Rural New South Wales, Australia -- 5 THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF CREE WELL-BEING -- PART THREE. WELL-BEING, CULTURE, AND THE STATE -- 6 WELL-BEING Lessons from India -- 7 WELL-BEING, CULTURAL PATHOLOGY, AND PERSONAL REJUVENATION IN A CHINESE CITY, 1981–2005 -- 8 FINDING AND KEEPING A PURPOSE IN LIFE Well-Being and Ikigai in Japan and Elsewhere -- PART FOUR: NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS -- 9 PLEASURE EXPERIENCED Well-Being and the Japanese Bath -- 10 SELFSCAPES OF WELL-BEING IN A RURAL INDONESIAN VILLAGE -- 11 WELL-BEING AND SUSTAINABILITY OF DAILY ROUTINES Families with Children with Disabilities in the United States -- Conclusion TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF WELL-BEING -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction ANTHROPOLOGY, HAPPINESS, AND WELL-BEING -- PART ONE. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- 1 WHY ANTHROPOLOGY CAN ILL AFFORD TO IGNORE WELL-BEING -- 2 IS A MEASURE OF CULTURAL WELL-BEING POSSIBLE OR DESIRABLE? -- PART TWO. WELL-BEING IN SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES -- 3 WELL-BEING AMONG THE MATSIGENKA OF THE PERUVIAN AMAZON Health, Missions, Oil, and “Progress” -- 4 EMBODIED SELVES AND SOCIAL SELVES Aboriginal Well-Being in Rural New South Wales, Australia -- 5 THE SHIFTING LANDSCAPE OF CREE WELL-BEING -- PART THREE. WELL-BEING, CULTURE, AND THE STATE -- 6 WELL-BEING Lessons from India -- 7 WELL-BEING, CULTURAL PATHOLOGY, AND PERSONAL REJUVENATION IN A CHINESE CITY, 1981–2005 -- 8 FINDING AND KEEPING A PURPOSE IN LIFE Well-Being and Ikigai in Japan and Elsewhere -- PART FOUR: NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS -- 9 PLEASURE EXPERIENCED Well-Being and the Japanese Bath -- 10 SELFSCAPES OF WELL-BEING IN A RURAL INDONESIAN VILLAGE -- 11 WELL-BEING AND SUSTAINABILITY OF DAILY ROUTINES Families with Children with Disabilities in the United States -- Conclusion TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF WELL-BEING -- Index

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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.

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In English.

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