The promise of the hyphen : an ethnography of self-help practices

This thesis is an ethnography of the phenomenon of self-help. It begins by noting a problematic at the centre of the topic: the term self-help connotes, on the one hand, an autonomous agent ("self'), and on the other, a reliance on other agents ("help"). More substantively, the t...

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Main Author: Scott Cherry
Format: Default Thesis
Published: 2009
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Other human society not elsewhere classified
Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified
Self-help groups
Self-help books
Life coaching
Ethnography
Epistemology
Conversation analysis
Practice theory
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/12692
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