The Social Life of Achievement

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-215-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Long, Nicholas J.

Moore, Henrietta L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Long, Nicholas J.
Nicholas J. Long is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the co-editor of Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power (Routledge, 2012) and Sociality: New Directions (Berghahn Books, 2013), and author of the monograph Being Malay in Indonesia: Histories, Hopes and Citizenship in the Riau Archipelago (NUS/NIAS/University of Hawai’i Press, 2013).

Moore, Henrietta L.
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).

Nicholas J. Long is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the co-editor of Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power (Routledge, 2012) and Sociality: New Directions (Berghahn Books, 2013), and author of the monograph Being Malay in Indonesia: Histories, Hopes and Citizenship in the Riau Archipelago (NUS/NIAS/University of Hawai’i Press, 2013).