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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Murphy, Keith M., Throop, C. Jason
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Will > Anthropological aspects.
Act (Philosophy)
Cognition and culture.
Personality and culture.
Ethnopsychology.
Ethnopsychology
Action (Philosophie)
Cognition et culture.
Personnalité et culture.
Ethnopsychologie.
ethnopsychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Cognition and culture
Personality and culture
Will > Anthropological aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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