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1 online resource (vi, 227 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Willing contours : locating volition in anthropological theory / Keith M. Murphy and C. Jason Throop -- In the midst of action / C. Jason Throop -- Moral willing as narrative re-envisioning / Cheryl Mattingly -- By the will of others or by one's own action? / Linda C. Garro -- Willful souls : dreaming and the dialectics of self-experience among the Tzotzil Maya of highland Chiapas, Mexico / Kevin P. Groark -- Transforming will, transforming culture / Jeannette Mageo -- How can will be expressed and what role does the imagination play? / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- Emil Kraepelin on pathologies of the will / Byron J. Good -- Afterword : willing in context / Douglas W. Hollan. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Will -- Anthropological aspects.
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Will -- Anthropological aspects. |
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Act (Philosophy)
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Act (Philosophy) |
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Cognition and culture.
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Cognition and culture. |
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Personality and culture.
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Personality and culture. |
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Ethnopsychology.
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Ethnopsychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Murphy, Keith M.
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Throop, C. Jason.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Toward an anthropology of the will. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804768870 (DLC) 2009025678 (OCoLC)421533411 |
| ISBN |
9780804773775 (electronic book) |
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0804773777 (electronic book) |
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9780804768870 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804768870 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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