Pursuits of Happiness ( n/a )

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Author: Mathews   Gordon  

Publisher: Berghahn Books‎

Publication year: 2008

E-ISBN: 9781845458775

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781845457082

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781845457082

Subject: C913.3 The Lives and Consumption

Keyword: null 医药、卫生,社会学,预防医学、卫生学Preventive Medicine , HealthSociologyMedicine and Health

Language: ENG

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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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