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Values of Happiness - Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life Iza Kavedzija

Values of Happiness - Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life By Iza Kavedzija

Values of Happiness - Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life by Iza Kavedzija


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Values of Happiness - Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life Summary

Values of Happiness - Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life by Iza Kavedzija

How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging how happy people are than with how happiness figures as an idea, mood, and motive in everyday life, the book explores how people strive to live well within challenging or even hostile circumstances. The contributors explore how happiness intersects with dominant social values as well as an array of aims and aspirations that are potentially conflicting, demonstrating that not every kind of happiness is seen as a worthwhile aim or evaluated in positive moral terms. In tracing this link between different conceptions of happiness and their evaluations, the book engages some of the most fundamental questions concerning human happiness: What is it and how is it achieved? Is happiness everywhere a paramount value or aim in life? How does it relate to other ideas of the good? What role does happiness play in orienting peoples' desires and life choices? Taking these questions seriously, the book draws together considerations of meaning, values, and affect, while recognizing the diversity of human ends.

About Iza Kavedzija

Iza Kavedzija is a lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Meaning in Life. Harry Walker is assistant professor in the department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Under a Watchful Eye.

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CIN0986132578G
9780986132575
0986132578
Values of Happiness - Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life by Iza Kavedzija
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Paperback
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20170203
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