The Social Life of Achievement David Zeitlyn

The Social Life of Achievement David ZeitlynWhat happens when people achieve? Why do reactions to achievement vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart of this volume. Drawing on research from Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America, this collection develops an innovative framework for

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The authors discuss the dilemmas that face those who would educate tomorrow's valuable citizens and describe the day-to-day commitment needed to maintain a community

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Munira’s Bottle is a rich and skillfully crafted story of a dysfunctional Saudi Arabian family