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Pursuits of Happiness: Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective
Gordon Mathews
Pursuits of Happiness: Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective
Gordon Mathews
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 societyA"-and the comparison of well-being within and across societies is a new and important area...
290 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 1, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9781845454487 |
Publishers | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 290 |
Dimensions | 161 × 242 × 22 mm · 574 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Izquierdo, Carolina |
Editor | Mathews, Gordon |
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