An Anthropology of Welfare

Journeying towards the Good Life

in Anthropology in Action
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Susanne Langer University of Liverpool s.langer@liverpool.ac.uk

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Susanne Højlund Aarhus University etnosh@hum.au.dk

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This issue of Anthropology in Action is dedicated to the study of welfare – understood as a social, culturally specific and long-term process of transformation – from an anthropological perspective. But is a study of ‘welfare’ still relevant and is it an appropriate concept to study what counts as a ‘good life’ well-lived? Has comprehensive publicly funded welfare still a role to play, or have collective welfare arrangements and institutions not been replaced by individuals’ personal quests for well-being?

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