Pursuits of Happiness: Well-being in Anthropological Perspective

by Gordon Mathews (Editor), Carolina Izquierdo (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $42.61

  Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic examination of well-being-defined as the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a societyA -and the comparison of well-being within and across societies is a new and important area...