Pursuits of Happiness Anne Line Dalsgård

Pursuits of Happiness Anne Line DalsgårdAnthropology 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

In addressing the cultural and educational dimensions of the ecological crisis

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This book examines

and modernism through the work of six writers

The Red One allows readers to explore the Solomon Islands while also engaging with a strange

a reflection and a source for the life that remains

where it was to remain for some 60 years

later known as Sojourner Truth

The author takes a political-economy approach that explains how interest groups and institutional factors have shaped different state policies

they are still underrepresented in agroforestry systems in temperate regions compared to the tropics

the book presents fine-grained analyses of the playful self during sporting events (with special attention given to crowd activities at college basketball games)

even threatening to