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The social life of achievement / edited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta L. Moore

Long, Nicholas J. [Hrsg.] ; Moore, Henrietta, 1957- [Hrsg.]

First edition

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013

VI, 238 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record

Druckausg.: The social life of achievement

978-1-78238-220-1 ; 978-1-78238-220-1

978-1-78238-220-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 881364668 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

[S.l.] : MyiLibrary

MyiLibrary

978-1-78238-221-8 ; 978-1-306-14234-2

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

CC 6600      Ähnliche Literatur

BF503

302.54

Basisklassifikation: 02.10 (Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft) ; 73.00 (Ethnologie: Allgemeines)

*Wissenschaft ; Leistung ; Erkenntnis ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Achievement motivation -- Social aspects ; Academic achievement -- Social aspects ; Ethnology -- Electronic books

Academic achievement ; Social aspects ; Achievement motivation ; Social aspects ; Ethnology ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung

What happens when people "achieve"? Why do reactions to "achievement" vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart of this volume. Drawing on research from Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America, this collection develops an innovative framework for explaining achievement's multiple effects-one which brings together cutting-edge theoretical insights into politics, psychology, ethics, materiality, aurality, embodiment, affect and narrative. In doing so, the volume advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology, emphasizing the significance of achievement as a moment of cultural invention, and the complexity of "the achiever" as a subject position.

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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Achievement and Its Social Life -- Chapter 1: The Achievement of a Life, a List, a Line -- Chapter 2: Against the Odds: A Professional Gambler's Narrative of Achievement -- Chapter 3: Men of Sound Reputation: The Achievement of Passionate Aurality in Guyanese Birdsport -- Chapter 4: Political Dimensions of Achievement Psychology: Perspectives on Selfhood, Confidence and Policy from a New Indonesian Province -- Chapter 5: Directive and Definitive Knowledge: Experiencing Achievement in a Thai Meditation Monastery -- Chapter 6: Autism and Affordances of Achievement: Narrative Genres and Parenting Practices -- Chapter 7: Achievement and Private Equity in the U.K.: A Game of Abstraction, Sociality and Making Money -- Chapter 8: For Family, State and Nation: Achieving Cosmopolitan Modernity in Late-Socialist Vietnam -- Chapter 9: Practising Responsibilisation: The Unwritten Curriculum for Achievement in an American Suburb -- Chapter 10: Competing to Lose? (Black) Female School Success as Pyrrhic Victory -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.