Toward an Anthropology of the Will

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Stanford University Press (2010)
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The contributors to this book draw upon their unique insights and research experience to address fundamental questions, including: What forms does the will take ...

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Afterword : Willing on context.Douglas W. Hollan
Emil kraepelin on pathologies of the will.Byron J. Good
How can will be expressed and what role does the imagination play?Pamela J. Stewart & Andrew Strathern
Moral willing as narrative re-envisioning.Cheryl Mattingly
The idea of the will implies agency and choice between possible actions. It also implies a kind of determination to carry out an action once it has been chosen; a posi-tive drive or desire to accomplish an action. The saying “Where there'sa will there'sa way” expresses this notion as a piece of folk wisdom. These are pragmatically and experientially informed dimensions of the idea. But in ad-dition, the concept of the will as it appears in a number of cross-cultural and historical contexts implies a further framework, the framework of cosmol. [REVIEW]How Can Will Be & Imagination Play
Transforming will, transforming culture.Jeanneatte Mageo
Willful souls : Dreaming and the dialectics of self-experience among the tzotzil Maya of Highland chiapas, mexico.Kevin P. Groark
Willing contours : Locating volition in anthropological theory.Keith M. Murphy & C. Jason Throop
In the midst of action.  (pages 28)C. Jason Throop
Philosophers since the time of the ancientGreekshave tended to categorize subjective expe-rience according to three basic faculties. These include the faculty of percep-tion (cognition, intellection, memory), the faculty of feeling (emotion, affect, sensation), and the faculty of will (volition, conflation, intention). While this tripartite set has long informed philosophical and later psychological models of the fundamental structures of subjective experience, the faculty of will has remained largely ... [REVIEW]  (pages 28)C. Jason Throop
It is no easy job to situate a discus-sion of the will within anthropology, which is perhaps why the editors of this volume chose the title they did. It is a subject some of us might want to move toward, but there is no sense of arrival. Even the paths toward it are dauntingly elusive. One is either faced with too much relevant literature or too little. On the too little side, there has been scant explicit consideration of willing as a cultural phenomenon, in contrast to philosophy and psychology where ... [REVIEW]  (pages 50)Moral Willing & As Narrative
By the will of others or by one's own action?  (pages 69--100)Linda C. Garro
As the epigraph suggests, in west-ern ethnopsychology the ultimate responsibility for the dream is understood to lie within the mind of the dreamer. Despite the ap-parent alterity of dream experience, it is seen as an expression of the indi-vidual's unconscious desires and drives. For Freud, this assumption opened the door to the study of the dreamwork and a focus on mechanisms of dream formation: condensation, displacement, symbolism, secondary elabo-ration, and so on (Freud 1900). But what happens ... [REVIEW]  (pages 101)Willful Souls

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