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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2013.
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| Series: | Wyse series in social anthropology ;
v. 2. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.