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Toward an anthropology of the will /

Toward an Anthropology of the Will, the first book that systematically explores volition from an anthropological point of view, demonstrates how a richly nuanced, ethnographically-informed approach to the cultural experience of willing can help shape theories of social action in the human sciences.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Murphy, Keith M., Throop, C. Jason
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Willing contours : locating volition in anthropological theory / Keith M. Murphy and C. Jason Throop
  • In the midst of action / C. Jason Throop
  • Moral willing as narrative re-envisioning / Cheryl Mattingly
  • By the will of others or by one's own action? / Linda C. Garro
  • Willful souls : dreaming and the dialectics of self-experience among the Tzotzil Maya of highland Chiapas, Mexico / Kevin P. Groark
  • Transforming will, transforming culture / Jeannette Mageo
  • How can will be expressed and what role does the imagination play? / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern
  • Emil Kraepelin on pathologies of the will / Byron J. Good
  • Afterword : willing in context / Douglas W. Hollan.