A Companion to Moral Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Fassin, Didier

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118290583
• Artikelnr.: 37341378

Autorenporträt

Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Trained as a physician in internal medicine and public health, Fassin dedicated his early research to medical anthropology, before developing a domain he terms political and moral anthropology. He is the Director-founder of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Social Issues (IRIS, Paris), former Chair of the Social Science and Humanities Committee of the French National Research Agency, and former Vice-President of Médecins sans Frontières.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Toward a Critical Moral
Anthropology 1 Didier Fassin Part I Legacies 19 1 Durkheim and the Moral
Fact 21 Bruno Karsenti 2 Weber and Practical Ethics 37 Isabelle Kalinowski
3 E. P. Thompson and Moral Economies 49 Marc Edelman 4 Foucault and the
Genealogy of Ethics 67 James D . Faubion 5 Relativism and Universalism 85
Richard A. Shweder 6 Anthropology and Ethics 103 Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban Part
II Approaches 115 7 Cultural Values 117 Joel Robbins 8 Ordinary Ethics 133
Veena Das 9 Moral Sentiments 150 C . Jason Throop 10 Moral Reasoning 169
Karen M . Sykes 11 Virtue 186 Thomas Widlok 12 Narratives 204 Jarrett Zigon
Part III Localities 221 13 Ethics and Piety 223 Saba Mahmood 14 Care and
Disregard 242 João Biehl 15 Mourning 264 Everett Yuehong Zhang 16 Poverty
283 Harri Englund 17 Inequality 302 Caroline Humphrey 18 Sexuality 320
Stacy Leigh Pigg Part IV Worlds 339 19 Religion and Morality 341 Michael
Lambek 20 Charity 359 Jonathan Benthall 21 Medicine 376 Adriana Petryna 22
Science 395 Michael M . J . Fischer 23 Finance 413 Karen Ho 24 Law 432
Carol J. Greenhouse Part V Politics 449 25 Humanitarianism 451 Peter
Redfield 26 Human Rights 468 Mark Goodale 27 War 482 Catherine Lutz and
Kathleen Millar 28 Violence 500 Alexander Hinton 29 Punishment 519 Roger
Lancaster 30 Borders 540 Josiah M. Heyman and John Symons Part VI Dialogues
559 31 Moral Philosophy 561 Kwame Anthony Appiah 32 Moral Psychology 578
James Dungan and Liane Young 33 Neuroethics 595 Massimo Reichlin 34
Evolutionary and Cognitive Anthropology 611 Nicolas Baumard and Dan Sperber
Index of Names 628 Subject Index 641