The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times

Ethnographic Perspectives on the Domestic Moral Economy

Bibliographic Data

ID5789404
AuthorsChris M Gregory (Australian National University), Lachmi Jagar, Harihar Vaishnav, R Maggio (0000-0002-9795-2184), F Magowan (0000-0003-0391-6826), Keir Martins, Rachel A Smith (0000-0003-0392-3735), Karen Sykes (0000-0001-6107-5899)
EditorsChris Gregory, Jon Altman
Year2018
Pages244
Publication date2018-03-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU)
DOI10.22459/qglpt.03.2018
OpenAlexW2889779361
Open LibraryOL28357320M
ISBN9781760462000
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited70

The study of the quest for the good life and the morality and value it presupposes is not new. To the contrary, this is an ancient issue; its intellectual history can be traced back to Aristotle. In anthropology, the study of morality and value has always been a central concern, despite the claim of some scholars that the recent upsurge of interest in these issues is new. What

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