Ebook: Toward an Anthropology of the Will

Willing contours : locating volition in anthropological theory / Keith M. Murphy and C. Jason Throop -- In the midst of action / C. Jason Throop -- Moral willing as narrative re-envisioning / Cheryl Mattingly -- By the will of others or by one's own action? / Linda C. Garro -- Willful souls : dreaming and the dialectics of self-experience among the Tzotzil Maya of highland Chiapas, Mexico / Kevin P. Groark -- Transforming will, transforming culture / Jeannette Mageo -- How can will be expressed and what role does the imagination play? / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- Emil Kraepelin on pathologies of the will / Byron J. Good -- Afterword : willing in context / Douglas W. Hollan.;Toward an Anthropology of the Will, the first book that systematically explores volition from an anthropological point of view, demonstrates how a richly nuanced, ethnographically-informed approach to the cultural experience of willing can help shape theories of social action in the human sciences.