The Cambridge handbook for the anthropology of ethics / edited by James Laidlaw, University of Cambridge.

"Two apparently contradictory things are both true about the anthropology of ethics. It is true that the academic discipline of anthropology has been concerned with ethics and morality throughout its whole history. It is also true that until the last couple of decades there was nothing that cou...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Laidlaw, James (Editor)
Other title:Handbook for the anthropology of ethics
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Series:Cambridge handbooks in anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intellectual sources and disciplinary engagements. Moral & political philosophy / Hallvard Lillehammer ; Virtue ethics / Jonathan Mair ; Agnostic pluralists / James Laidlaw & Patrick McKearney ; The two faces of Michel Foucault / Paolo Heywood ; Phenomenology / Samuel Williams ; Cognitive science / Harry Walker & Natalia Buitron ; Theology / Michael Banner
  • Aspects of ethical agency. Making the ethical in social interaction / Webb Keane & Michael Lempert ; Freedom / Soumhya Venkatesan ; Responsibility / Catherine Trundle ; Emotion and affect / Teresa Kuan ; Happiness and wellbeing / Edward F. Fischer & Sam Victor ; Suffering and sympathy / Abby Mack & C. Jason Throop ; Ambiguity and difference / Adam B. Seligman & Robert P. Weller
  • Media and modes of ethical practice. Self-cultivation / Joanna Cook ; Exemplars / Nicholas H. A. Evans ; Ritual / Letha Victor & Michael Lambek ; Values / Julian Sommerschuh & Joel Robbins ; Rules / Morgan Clarke ; On ethical pedagogies / James D. Faubion
  • Intimate and everyday life. Care / Cheryl Mattingly & Patrick McKearney ; Kinship and love / Perveez Mody ; Cooperation and punishment / Anni Kajanus & Charles Stafford ; Favours / David Henig & Nicolette Makovicky ; The inimical gaze / Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin ; Aminals / Rosie Jones-McVey ; God / T. M. Luhrmann
  • Institutional life. Modern capitalism and ethical plurality / Robert W. Hefner ; The ethics of trade & commerce / Paul Anderson & Magnus Marsden ; Activism and political organization / Sian Lazar ; Philanthropy / China Scherz ; Science / Matei Candea ; Communist morality under socialism / Yunxiang Yan.