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oapen-20.500.12657-302232023-02-01T08:49:15Z Values of Happiness Kavedžija, Iza Walker, Harry Anthropology Happiness Well-Being Value Prosperity Emotion Ethnography Eudaimonia Humanism Mindfulness 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. 2018-04-19 23:55 2020-03-26 03:00:33 2020-04-01T12:48:52Z 2020-04-01T12:48:52Z 2016-11-30 book 648355 OCN: 1038453729 9780986132575 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30223 eng application/pdf n/a 648355.pdf HAU Books 101667 b74962f8-84f3-4d30-ae61-396a70a5d3b0 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780986132575 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Chicago, IL USA 101667 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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