TY - JOUR
T1 - On Happiness
AU - Johnston, Barbara Rose
AU - Colson, Elizabeth
AU - Falk, Dean
AU - St John, Graham
AU - Bodley, John H.
AU - McCay, Bonnie J.
AU - Wali, Alaka
AU - Nordstrom, Carolyn
AU - Slyomovics, Susan
PY - 2012/3/1
Y1 - 2012/3/1
N2 - What do anthropologists have to say about happiness? For some contributors in this Vital Topics Forum, happiness is a sensory force that colors and shapes human evolution and experience. Others consider happiness, or the lack thereof, to be a faceted reflection of the arrangements in society. All recognize the potential power of human happiness, where a distant memory, fleeting experience, or idealized vision can serve as a driving force in transformative change, prompting individual and collective desire and action to give new meaning, sustain life and livelihood, restore dignity, make peace... to dream again.
AB - What do anthropologists have to say about happiness? For some contributors in this Vital Topics Forum, happiness is a sensory force that colors and shapes human evolution and experience. Others consider happiness, or the lack thereof, to be a faceted reflection of the arrangements in society. All recognize the potential power of human happiness, where a distant memory, fleeting experience, or idealized vision can serve as a driving force in transformative change, prompting individual and collective desire and action to give new meaning, sustain life and livelihood, restore dignity, make peace... to dream again.
KW - Engaged anthropology
KW - Happiness
KW - Trouble
KW - Well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858643998&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01393.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01393.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84858643998
VL - 114
SP - 6
EP - 18
JO - American Anthropologist
JF - American Anthropologist
SN - 1548-1433
IS - 1
ER -