Building on contributions from sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, literature, and neuroscience, Henricks develops a more general account of how people discover and reproduce the '¬Smeanings'¬ of their involvements with others. Among its many themes are treatments of selves as '¬Sprojections of personhood,'¬ of the ways in which self-expression has changed historically and is now experienced in our electronically mediated era, of emotions as '¬Sframing judgments,'¬ and of ritual, play, communitas, and work as four distinctive '¬Spathways of experience.'¬