Values of happiness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2435134 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Walker (0000-0001-9879-4045, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Iza Kavedžija (0000-0002-5265-2380, University of Oxford) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14318/hau5.3.002 |
| OpenAlex | W2224895694 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 39 |
How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. The modern conception of happiness as private good feeling is the result of a long sequence of changes in dominant conceptions of the ends of life and of humanity's place in the cosmos. This invites reflection on how the very vagueness of happiness can account for its powerful claim to render diverse values commensurable. In arguing for the importance of a critical, ethnographic approach to happiness- one concerned less with gauging how happy people are than with how happiness figures as an idea, mood, or motive in everyday life-we highlight its relationship to values, as well as questions of scope, virtue, and responsibility. Whether real or elusive, the pursuit of happiness structures time in specific ways and is largely other-oriented, insofar as one's own happiness would seem best left in the hands of others
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Eudaimonia · Everyday life · Feeling · Happiness · Humanity · Political science · Sociology · Vagueness · Virtue · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Law · Philosophy · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
Sociocultural anthropology
Brokers of crisis
“With Aids I am happier than I have ever been before”
A sheltered place, a sheltered person? Ordering wellbeing in a time between wars in the northern Galilee
Teachings of Tara
Introduction
What Types of Happiness Do Korean Adults Pursue?—Comparison of Seven Happiness Types
Making meaningful lives
Ethnography and emotions. Methodological reflections on the exploration of emotions in education research
Operation ‘Long Distance Parenting’
Tourism and wellbeing
The Willing
Traiettorie del filologicamente corretto. Il campo del folklore nell’operato di un maestro contemporaneo delle danze sarde
The RitualThiyóšpayeand the Social Organization of Contemporary Lakota Ceremonial Life
La face sombre de l'anthropologie
La antropología oscura y sus otros. Teoría desde los ochenta
Laugh-cry, eat-drink, dance! Tracing belonging through cartographies of joy
Dark anthropology and its others
Life amidst Rubble
Staging joyful spectacles
Sociocultural Anthropology in 2016
Kin-Work among Black Transit Migrants in Tapachula, Mexico
Articulating Lingual Life Histories and Language Ideological Assemblages
Struggling to Be a "Happy Self"? Psychotherapy and the Medicalization of Unhappiness in Uganda
Anthropology's Lost Language Syndrome
Mobilizing the past
How are you, anthropology? Reflections on well-being and the common good
A Brief History of Happiness
Ethnologie des gens heureux
Understanding Happiness
The Pursuit of Happiness and the Realization of Sympathy
Concepts of Happiness Across Time and Cultures
Four essays on liberty
The Category of the person
Justice for Hedgehogs
The Promise of Happiness
Subjects of Luck
Minimalist in Style
Happiness’ in cross-linguistic & cross-cultural perspective
When happiness makes us selfish, but sadness makes us fair
Sources of the self
The Fragility of Goodness
Subjective well-being
Anomalies
Introduction
From Max Weber
Unnatural Emotions
Emotions and the Self
The Politics of Egalitarianism
It is value that brings universes into being
Prologue
Monism, pluralism, and the structure of value relations
"Introduction
Value and virtue
On Happiness
Moral Experience
Beyond the suffering subject
"Animism" Revisited
A life worth leaving
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |