Pursuits of Happiness Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective

Name: Pursuits of Happiness Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective
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ISBN: 9781845457082

ISBN-10: 1845457080

ISBN-13: 9781845457082

Edition: 2009

Authors: 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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Gordon Mathews is professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Global Culture/ Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket and What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds, coauthor of Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation, and coeditor of several books.