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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
Subjects:	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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