Pursuits of Happiness

Pursuits of HappinessAnthropology 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 beingdefined as the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a societyand the comparison of well being within and across societies is a new and important area for anthropological inquiry. Distinctly different in different places, but also reflecting our common humanity, well

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and L'humanité by the French director Bruno Dumont won the Grand Prize

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the giant redwoods and how they were preserved (the Klamath)

Using personal interviews

A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage

but all of them point to one conclusion-the picture of a man in search of his full stature

Beyond Romance critiques the romantic ideal that predominates contemporary thought and practice-it defines

oppositional inquiry of "Others" epitomizes the itinerary of San Juan's exploration of the discipline once called litterae humaniores but now reconceived as the praxis of critical transgressions

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