Innovatively explains the multiple effects of "achievement". Brings together cutting-edge insights into politics, psychology, ethics and materiality. Advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology. Promotes "achievement" as a moment of cultural invention, and the complexity of the achiever.
Innovatively explains the multiple effects of "achievement". Brings together cutting-edge insights into politics, psychology, ethics and materiality. Advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology. Promotes "achievement" as a moment of cultural invention, and the complexity of the achiever.
Henrietta L. Moore is Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London where she is also Chair of Culture, Philosophy and Design. Among her recent books is Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions (Polity Press, 2011).
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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Achievement and Its Social Life Nicholas J. Long & Henrietta L. Moore Chapter 1. The Achievement of a Life, a List, a Line Kathleen Stewart Chapter 2. Against the Odds: A Professional Gambler's Narrative of Achievement Rebecca Cassidy Chapter 3. Men of Sound Reputation: The Passionate Aurality of Achievement in Guyanese Birdsport Laura H. Mentore Chapter 4. Political Dimensions of Achievement Psychology: Perspectives on Selfhood, Confidence and Policy from a New Indonesian Province Nicholas J. Long Chapter 5. Directive and Definitive Knowledge: Experiencing Achievement in a Thai Meditation Monastery Joanna Cook Chaqpter 6. Autism and Affordances of Achievement: Narrative Genres and Parenting Practices Olga Solomon Chapter 7. Achievement and Private Equity in the UK: A Game of Abstraction, Sociality and Making Money Sarah F. Green Chapter 8. For Family, State, and Nation: Achieving Cosmopolitan Modernity in Late-Socialist Vietnam Susan Bayly Chapter 9. Practicing Responsibilisation: The Unwritten Curriculum for Achievement in an American Suburb Peter Demerath Chapter 10. Competing to Lose: (Black) Female School Success as Pyrrhic Victory Signithia Fordham Notes on Contributors Index
List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Achievement and Its Social Life Nicholas J. Long & Henrietta L. Moore Chapter 1. The Achievement of a Life, a List, a Line Kathleen Stewart Chapter 2. Against the Odds: A Professional Gambler's Narrative of Achievement Rebecca Cassidy Chapter 3. Men of Sound Reputation: The Passionate Aurality of Achievement in Guyanese Birdsport Laura H. Mentore Chapter 4. Political Dimensions of Achievement Psychology: Perspectives on Selfhood, Confidence and Policy from a New Indonesian Province Nicholas J. Long Chapter 5. Directive and Definitive Knowledge: Experiencing Achievement in a Thai Meditation Monastery Joanna Cook Chaqpter 6. Autism and Affordances of Achievement: Narrative Genres and Parenting Practices Olga Solomon Chapter 7. Achievement and Private Equity in the UK: A Game of Abstraction, Sociality and Making Money Sarah F. Green Chapter 8. For Family, State, and Nation: Achieving Cosmopolitan Modernity in Late-Socialist Vietnam Susan Bayly Chapter 9. Practicing Responsibilisation: The Unwritten Curriculum for Achievement in an American Suburb Peter Demerath Chapter 10. Competing to Lose: (Black) Female School Success as Pyrrhic Victory Signithia Fordham Notes on Contributors Index
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