The good life : aspiration, dignity, and the anthropology of wellbeing /
What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups use the market in pursuit of the ""good life."" But what exactly is the good life? How do we define wellbeing beyond material standard...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the good life : values, markets, and wellbeing
- Values and prices : the case of German eggs
- Word, deed, and preferences
- Moral provenance and larger purposes
- Solidarity, dignity, and opportunity
- Provenance and values : the case of Guatemalan coffee
- Agency, opportunity, and frustrated freedoms
- Experiments in fairness and dignity
- Narco-trafficking and violence
- Conclusion : the good life and positive anthropology.