Moral Anthropology

A Critique
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-868-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 108 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 171 g

Reihe: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume reconceptualizes the discipline of anthropology in a radical way. Contributions from anthropologists from around the world from different theoretical traditions and with expertise in a multiplicity of ethnographic areas makes this collection a provocative contribution to larger discussions not only in anthropology but the social sciences more broadly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kapferer, Bruce

Gold, Marina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Reconceptualising the Discipline

PART I: THE CASE AGAINST MORAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Chapter 1. Why I Will Not Make It as a ‘Moral Anthropologist’

Don Kalb

Chapter 2. Steps Away from Moralism

Martin Holbraad

Chapter 3. Not Beyond Good and Evil: The Ethics of Anthropology and the Anthropology of Ethics

Kirsten Bell

Chapter 4. An Obscure Desire for Catastrophe

Rohan Bastin

PART II: MORAL ISSUES IN CONTEXT

Chapter 5. Facts, Values, Morality, and Anthropology

Christopher C. Taylor

Chapter 6. Moral Anthropology, Human Rights and Egalitarianism or The AAA boycott

Marina Gold

Chaprter 7. Anthropology’s Atavistic Turn: An Animist Perspective

Caroline Ifeka

PART III: PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS

Chapter 8. Empathy, As Affective Ethical Technology and Transformative Political Praxis

Elisabeth Kirtsoglou & Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

Chapter 9. The Question of Ethics and Morality

Terry Evens

PART IV: A BROADER VIEW IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Chapter 10. The Horizon of Freedom and Ethics of Singularity: The Social Individual and the Necessity of Reloading the Spirit of 1968

Jakob Rigi

Chapter 11. Situating Morality

Jonathan Friedman

Über Autor(innen)

Kapferer, Bruce
Bruce Kapferer is Honorary Professor University College London and Professor Emeritus, University of Bergen, where he is Director of the Egalitarianism Project supported by an ERC Advanced Grant. Has published widely on South Asia, Africa and Australia where he has done extensive anthropological fieldwork.

Gold, Marina
Marina Gold is research fellow in the department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, where she is part of the ERC Advanced Grant Egalitarianism Project. Her publications include articles in Social Analysis, and the Bulletin of Latin American Research and a recent monograph based on her research in Cuba, titled People and State in Socialist Cuba: Ideas and practices of Revolution (Palgrave 2015).

Bruce Kapferer is Honorary Professor University College London and Professor Emeritus, University of Bergen, where he is Director of the Egalitarianism Project supported by an ERC Advanced Grant. Has published widely on South Asia, Africa and Australia where he has done extensive anthropological fieldwork.