TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kavedžija,Iza
AU  - Walker,Harry
AU  - Walker,Harry
TI  - Values of Happiness: Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life
SN  - 9780986132575
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Chicago, IL USA
PB  - HAU Books
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Emotion
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Eudaimonia
KW  - Happiness
KW  - Humanism
KW  - Mindfulness
KW  - Prosperity
KW  - Value
KW  - Well-Being
N1  - Open Access
N2  - How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging how happy people are than with how happiness figures as an idea, mood, and motive in everyday life, the book explores how people strive to live well within challenging or even hostile circumstances. The contributors explore how happiness intersects with dominant social values as well as an array of aims and aspirations that are potentially conflicting, demonstrating that not every kind of happiness is seen as a worthwhile aim or evaluated in positive moral terms
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30223
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/15b468eb-1b67-493d-9ef6-0a5bfd660daf/648355.pdf
ER  -