Anthropology as Ethics : : Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice /

Anthropology as Ethics : : Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice / / T. M. S. (Terry) Evens.

Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental...

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Evens, T. M. S. (Terry),
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (418 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Organization and Key Usages
  • Introduction: Nondualism, Ontology, and Anthropology
  • Part I. The Ethnographic Self
  • 1. Anthropology and the Synthetic a Priori
  • 2. Blind Faith and the Binding of Isaac—the Akedah
  • 3. Excursus I
  • 4. Counter-Sacrifice and Instrumental Reason—the Holocaust
  • 5. Bourdieu’s Anti-dualism and “Generalized Materialism”
  • 6. Habermas’s Anti-dualism and “Communicative Rationality”
  • Part II. The Ethnographic Other
  • 7. Technological Efficacy, Mythic Rationality, and Non-contradiction
  • 8. Epistemic Efficacy, Mythic Rationality, and Non-contradiction
  • 9. Contradiction and Choice among the Dinka and in Genesis
  • 10. Contradiction in Azande Oracular Practice and in Psychotherapeutic Interaction
  • Part III. From Mythic to Value-Rationality
  • 11. Epistemic and Ethical Gain
  • 12. Transcending Dualism and Amplifying Choice
  • 13. Excursus II
  • 14. Anthropology and the Generative Primacy of Moral Order
  • Conclusion: Emancipatory Selfhood and Value-Rationality
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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