Social Life of Achievement

Innovatively explains the multiple effects of "achievement"


Brings together cutting-edge insights into politics, psychology, ethics and materiality


Advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology


Promotes "achievement" as a moment of cultural invention, and the complexity of the achiever

Info autore

Nicholas J. Long Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power (Routledge, 2012) and Sociality: New Directions (Berghahn Books, 2013),Being Malay in Indonesia: Histories, Hopes and Citizenship in the Riau Archipelago (NUS/NIAS/University of Hawai’i Press, 2013).

Henrietta L. Moore is Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London where she is also Chair of Culture, Philosophy and Design. Among her recent books is Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions (Polity Press, 2011).

Riassunto

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 lie at the heart of this volume.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Long Nicholas J. (Editore), Moore Henrietta L. (Editore), Henrietta L. Moore (Editore), Henrietta L Moore (Editore), Nicholas J. Long (Editore), Nicholas J Long (Editore), Moore Henrietta (Editore)
• Autori: Nicholas J Long, Nicholas J. Moore Long, Nicholas J. (EDT)/ Moore Long
• Editore: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.11.2013
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica
• EAN: 9781782382201
• ISBN: 978-1-78238-220-1
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Serie: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology > 2
• Categorie: Sociology, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social, group or collective psychology, Social and cultural anthropology, Anthropology (General); Sociology