The social life of achievement

Author(s)

• Long, Nicholas J.
• Moore, Henrietta L.

Bibliographic Information

The social life of achievement

edited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta L. Moore

（Wyse series in social anthropology / editors, Maryon McDonald, Henrietta L. Moore, v. 2）

Berghahn, 2013

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB18003928
• ISBN:
  • 9781782382201
• LCCN: 2013020237
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 238 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF503
  • DC23 : 302.5/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Achievement motivation -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Academic achievement -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Ethnology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB12785502