Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sicknessa quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditionshas contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of social organization, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanize the market and the administrative state. In their new Introduction the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.\

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

Introducing impoliteness 1. Understanding impoliteness I: face and social norms 2. Understanding impoliteness II: intentionality and emotions 3. Impoliteness metadiscourse 4. Conventionalised formulaic impoliteness and its intensification 5. Non-conventionalised impoliteness: implicational impoliteness 6. Impoliteness events: co-texts and contexts 7. Impoliteness events: functions 8. Conclusions.

Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

‘The Fourth Pillar’ provides a clear definition of culture, analyses its function within the emerging new planning paradigms and proposes practical measures for the integration of a cultural perspective into the public sphere. Its key conclusion is that a whole-ofgovernment cultural framework, operating in parallel with social, environmental and economic frameworks, is essential for the achievement of a sustainable and healthy society.

https://www.culturaldevelopment.net.au/downloads/FourthPillarSummary.pdf

The fourth pillar of sustainability: culture’s essential role in public planning

Most people still think of themselves as belonging to a particular culture. Yet today, many of us who live in affluent societies choose aspects of our lives from a global cultural supermarket, whether in terms of food, the arts or spiritual beliefs. So if roots are becoming simply one more consumer choice, can we still claim to possess a fundamental cultural identity? Global Culture/Individual Identity focuses on three groups for whom the tension between a particular national culture and the global cultural supermarket is especially acute: Japanese artists, American religious seekers and Hong Kong intellectuals after the handover to China. These ethnographic case studies form the basis for a theory of culture which we can all see reflected in our own lives. Gordon Mathews opens up the complex and debated topics of globalization, culture and identity in a clear and lively style.

Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket

Introduction: Anthropology, Happiness, and Well-Being Gordon Mathews and Carolina Izquierdo PART I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Chapter 1. Why Anthropology Can Ill Afford to Ignore Well-Being Neil Thin Chapter 2. Is a Measure of Cultural Well-Being Possible or Desirable? Benjamin Nick Colby PART II: WELL-BEING IN SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES Chapter 3. Well-Being Among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon: Health, Missions, Oil, and ProgressA" Carolina Izquierdo Chapter 4. Embodied Selves and Social Selves: Aboriginal Well-Being in Rural New South Wales, Australia Daniela Heil Chapter 5. The Shifting Landscape of Cree Well-Being Naomi Adelson PART III: WELL-BEING, CULTURE AND THE STATE Chapter 6. Well-Being: Lessons from India Steve Derne Chapter 7. Well-Being, Cultural Pathology, and Personal Rejuvenation in a Chinese City, 1981- 2005 William Jankowiak Chapter 8. Finding and Keeping a Purpose in Life: Well-Being and Ikigai in Japan and Elsewhere Gordon Mathews PART IV: NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS Chapter 9. Pleasure Experienced: Well-Being and the Japanese Bath Scott Clark Chapter 10. Selfscapes of Well-Being in a Rural Indonesian Village Douglas Hollan Chapter 11. Well-Being and Sustainability of Daily Routines: Families with Children with Disabilities in the United States Thomas S. Weisner Conclusion: Towards an Anthropology of Well-Being Gordon Mathews and Carolina Izquierdo Tables Figures Bibliography Index

Pursuits of happiness : well-being in anthropological perspective

Here is an original and provocative anthropological approach to the fundamental philosophical question of what makes life worth living. Gordon Mathews considers this perennial issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan. In the course of exploring how people from these two cultures find meaning in their daily lives, he illuminates a vast and intriguing range of ideas about work and love, religion, creativity, and self-realization. Mathews explores these topics by means of the Japanese term ikigai, "that which most makes one's life seem worth living." American English has no equivalent, but ikigai applies not only to Japanese lives but to American lives as well. Ikigai is what, day after day and year after year, each of us most essentially lives for. Through the life stories of those he interviews, Mathews analyzes the ways Japanese and American lives have been affected by social roles and cultural vocabularies. As we approach the end of the century, the author's investigation into how the inhabitants of the world's two largest economic superpowers make sense of their lives brings a vital new understanding to our skeptical age.

What Makes Life Worth Living?: How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds

This article looks at the livelihoods and lives of African traders coming to Hong Kong and Guangzhou. These traders are practising “low-end globalization”, involving small amounts of capital, and semi-legal or illegal transactions under the radar of the law. The article first considers who these traders are, portraying them as, typically, members of the upper crust of their home societies. It then considers these traders in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, a building that is an entrepot between China and the developing world. Finally, it looks at traders’ livelihoods and lives in Guangzhou, South China, and traders’ efforts to succeed in mainland China. The article argues that one essential economic role China plays today is in manufacturing the cheap, sometimes counterfeit goods that enable Africa and other developing-world regions to experience globalization; the African traders who come to China help make this possible.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/186810261204100205

How Africans Pursue Low-End Globalization in Hong Kong and Mainland China

Introduction: What is Globalization from Below? Gordon Mathews and Carlos Alba Vega Part 1: Mapping Globalization from Below: Routes, Nodes, Markets 1. Following the New Silk Road between Yiwu and Cairo Olivier Pliez 2. "They Come from China": Pirate CDs in Mexico in Transnational Perspective Jose Carlos G. Aguiar 3. Ciudad del Este and the Brazilian Circuits of Commercial Distribution Fernando Rabossi 4. Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong as a Laboratory of Neoliberalism Gordon Mathews 5. Illegalisms and the City of Sao Paulo Vera da Silva Telles Part 2: Embodying Globalization from Below: Entrepreneurs, Traders, Peddlers 6. Hong Kong Petty Capitalists Investing in China: Risk Tolerance, Uncertain Investment Environments, Success and Failure Alan Smart and Josephine Smart 7. From Secondhand Clothing to Cosmetics: How Philippine-Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fill Gaps in Cross-Border Trade Lynne Milgram 8. Mexican "Ant Traders" in the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez Border Region: Tensions between Globalization, Securitization and New Mobility Regimes Melissa Gauthier 9. African Traders in Guangzhou, China: Routes, Reasons, Profits, Dreams Yang Yang 10. In the Shadow of the Mall: Street Hawking in Global Calcutta Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay 11. Localism Meets Globalization in an American Street Market Robert Shepherd 12. Local Politics and Economic Globalization from Below: The Peddler Leaders of Mexico City's Historic Center Streets Carlos Alba Vega Conclusion: Globalization From Below and the Non-Hegemonic World System Gustavo Lins Ribeiro

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Gordon Mathews

Papers

Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket

Pursuits of happiness : well-being in anthropological perspective

What Makes Life Worth Living?: How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds

How Africans Pursue Low-End Globalization in Hong Kong and Mainland China

Globalization from Below : The World's Other Economy