UID:
edocfu_9959233698402883
Format:
1 online resource (236 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8047-7377-7
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; 1. Willing Contours: Locating Volition in Anthropological Theory / Keith M. Murphy and C. Jason Throop; 2. In the Midst of Action / C. Jason Throop; 3. Moral Willing As Narrative Re-Envisioning / Cheryl Mattingly; 4. By the Will of Others or by One's Own Action? / Linda C. Garro; 5. Willful Souls: Dreaming and the Dialectics of Self-Experience Among the Tzotzil Maya of Highland Chiapas, Mexico / Kevin P. Groark; 6. Transforming Will/Transforming Culture / Jeannette Mageo; 7. How Can Will Be Expressed and What Role Does the Imagination Play? / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern
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8. Emil Kraepelin on Pathologies of the Will / Byron J. GoodAfterword: Willing in Context / Douglas W. Hollan; Notes; References; List of Contributors; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-6887-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780804773775
