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The social life of achievement /

What 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Long, Nicholas J. (Editor ), Moore, Henrietta L., 1957- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Colección:Wyse series in social anthropology ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Achievement and Its Social Life / Nicholas J. Long & Henrietta L. Moore
  • Chapter 1. The Achievement of a Life, a List, a Line / Kathleen Stewart
  • Chapter 2. Against the Odds: A Professional Gambler's Narrative of Achievement / Rebecca Cassidy
  • Chapter 3. Men of Sound Reputation: The Passionate Aurality of Achievement in Guyanese Birdsport / Laura H. Mentore
  • Chapter 4. Political Dimensions of Achievement Psychology: Perspectives on Selfhood, Confidence and Policy from a New Indonesian Province / Nicholas J. Long Chapter
  • 5. Directive and Definitive Knowledge: Experiencing Achievement in a Thai Meditation Monastery / Joanna Cook Chaqpter
  • 6. Autism and Affordances of Achievement: Narrative Genres and Parenting Practices / Olga Solomon
  • Chapter 7. Achievement and Private Equity in the UK: A Game of Abstraction, Sociality and Making Money / Sarah F. Green
  • Chapter 8. For Family, State, and Nation: Achieving Cosmopolitan Modernity in Late-Socialist Vietnam / Susan Bayly
  • Chapter 9. Practicing Responsibilisation: The Unwritten Curriculum for Achievement in an American Suburb / Peter Demerath
  • Chapter 10. Competing to Lose: (Black) Female School Success as Pyrrhic Victory / Signithia Fordham
  • Notes on Contributors; Index.