ISBN:
9781805390015
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (260 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
WYSE Series in Social Anthropology 14
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Keywords:
Anthropology (General), Anthropology of Religion, Medical Anthropology
Abstract:
Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' - that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend. The result is a robust examination of how people around the world experience weaknesses of will, which speaks to debates in both the anthropology of ethics and moral philosophy
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Patrick McKearney and Nicholas H.A. Evans -- Chapter 1. Trigger Warnings: Danger, Desire, and Declensions of the Will in Eating Disorders Treatment -- Rebecca J. Lester -- Chapter 2. Three Problems with the Addiction as Akrasia Thesis that Ethnography Can Solve -- Darin Weinberg -- Chapter 3. To Live Like 'People': Drinking and Weakness of Will Among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon -- Francesca Mezzenzana -- Chapter 4. Prayer, Demons, and Akratic Sublation -- Jon Bialecki -- Chapter 5. Troubleshooting Humans: Modelling the Pathways to Inertia, Backsliding, and Moral Transgression on Indonesia's Hypnotherapy Circuit -- Nicholas J. Long -- Chapter 6. The 'Replication' of Caste as a Form of Collective Akrasia -- Ivan Deschenaux -- Chapter 7. Is Grit Irrational for Akratic Agents? -- Lubomira Radoilska -- Chapter 8. Relational Akrasia: Care and the Distribution of Action -- Patrick McKearney -- Afterword -- Richard Holton -- Index
Note:
Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly
