ISBN:
0203974190
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9780203974193
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 234 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Ethnography of moralities
DDC:
170
Keywords:
Ethics Cross-cultural studies
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Values Cross-cultural studies
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Ethics Cross-cultural studies
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Values Cross-cultural studies
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Values Cross-cultural studies
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Ethics Cross-cultural studies
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PHILOSOPHY ; Social
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PHILOSOPHY ; Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Ethics
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Values
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Moraal
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Morale ; Études transculturelles ; Congrès
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Valeurs (philosophie) ; Études transculturelles ; Congrès
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Wertordnung
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Kulturanthropologie
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Cross-cultural studies
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Electronic books Cross-cultural studies
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Introduction /Signe Howell --1.Exemplars and rules: aspects of the discourse of moralities in Mongolia /Caroline Humphrey --2.'I lied, I farted, I stole ... ': dignity and morality in African discourses on personhood /Anita Jacobson-Widding --3.The morality of locality: on the absolutism of landownership in an English village /Nigel Rapport --4.The moralities of Argentinian football /Eduardo P. Archetti --5.Double standards /Marilyn Strathern --6.Inside an 'exhausted community': an essay on case-reconstructive research about peripheral and the other moralities /Andre Gingrich --7.The troubles of virtue: values of violence and suffering in a Mexican context /Marit Melhuus.
Abstract:
The social construction of morality is a complex and challenging topic which is central to the anthropological discipline. Until recently, however, it has received little direct attention from anthropologists. With the growing interest in indigenous notions of self and personhood, and related questions regarding human rights, issues pertaining to moral and ethical groundings of social life have become increasingly relevant. So far, however, few anthropologists have concerned themselves with disentangling 'moralities' and how one might set about studying them in empirical settings. The focus for The Enthnography of Moralities was chosen precisely in order to raise a debate around the empirical study of different moral discourses and how these are related to social institutions, to indigenous concepts of human nature (male and female), to cosmology and to the nature of good and evil
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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