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Title Toward an anthropology of the will / edited by Keith M. Murphy and C. Jason Throop.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  302.1 T65a 2010    ---  Available
Description vi, 227 p. ; 24 cm.
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 / Jeanneatte 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 on context / Douglas W. Hollan.
Subject Will -- Anthropological aspects.
Act (Philosophy)
Cognition and culture.
Personality and culture.
Ethnopsychology.
Added Author Murphy, Keith M.
Throop, C. Jason.
ISBN 9780804768870 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804768870 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. 3141534

 
    
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