ISBN:
9781118290590
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (666 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Serie:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Ser.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306
Schlagwort(e):
Anthropology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts explore the various currents, approaches, and issues in this important new discipline, examining topics such as the ethnography of moralities, the study of moral subjectivities, and the exploration of moral economies. Investigates the central legacies of moral anthropology, the formation of moral facts and values, the context of local moralities, and the frontiers between moralities, politics, humanitarianism Features contributions from pioneers in the field of moral anthropology, as well as international experts in related fields such as moral philosophy, moral psychology, evolutionary biology and neuroethics.
Kurzfassung:
Intro -- A Companion to Moral Anthropology -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Toward a Critical Moral Anthropology -- THE TROUBLE WITH MORALS -- PHILOSOPHICAL AFFINITIES -- OPENING TERRITORIES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Part I Legacies -- 1 Durkheim and the Moral Fact -- DETERMINATION BY "SANCTION" -- HOW DURKHEIM'S THINKING IS RELATED TO KANT'S -- THE SACRED -- THE INDIVIDUAL, THE IDEAL OF THE PERSON -- VALUE JUDGMENTS -- SOCIETY IN ACTUALITY AND SOCIETY IN ACTION -- 2 Weber and Practical Ethics -- ETHICAL SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF ETHICS -- THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THEOLOGY -- ETHICS AND ETHOS: THE "RATIONALITY" OF ACTION -- ETHICS, CAUSALITY, AND CULPABILITY -- CONCLUSION -- 3 E. P. Thompson and Moral Economies -- EARLY LIFE ON THE LEFT -- THOMPSON'S "ANTHROPOLOGIES" AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS' NEGLECT -- THE MORAL ECONOMY -- THE "MIGRATION" OF MORAL ECONOMY -- CONCLUSION -- 4 Foucault and the Genealogy of Ethics -- TOWARD ETHICS -- TOWARD ATHENS -- THE GROUNDS AND PARAMETERS OF THE ETHICAL DOMAIN -- THE CARE OF THE SELF -- PARRHESIA AND THE GOVERNANCE OF OTHERS -- CODA: A GENEALOGY OF THE ETHICS OF THE FUTURE -- 5 Relativism and Universalism -- MORAL UNIVERSALISM: THE STANDARD CHARACTERIZATION -- DESCRIPTIVE WORK IN MORAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND LIMITS -- BACK TO MONTAIGNE: ON BEING SLOW TO JUDGE LITTLE-KNOWN OTHERS -- MORAL JUDGMENT IN TWO TEMPLE TOWNS -- MORAL PLURALISM AS UNIVERSALISM WITHOUT THE UNIFORMITY (IN BRIEF) -- CONCLUSION -- 6 Anthropology and Ethics -- DO NO HARM -- FRAGMENTS OF HISTORY -- DEBATES ABOUT CODES -- INDIGENOUS COLLEAGUES, OFTEN OVERLOOKED -- COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FROM RESEARCH "SUBJECTS" TO "PARTICIPANTS" -- INFORMED CONSENT AS A PROCESS OF MORAL ENGAGEMENT WITH PARTICIPANTS -- IS SECRET OR CLANDESTINE RESEARCH IMMORAL?.
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