Moral Anthropology : : A Critique / / ed. by Bruce Kapferer, Marina Gold.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Bastin, Rohan,; Bell, Kirsten,; Evens, Terry,; Friedman, Jonathan,; Gold, Marina,; Holbraad, Martin,; Ifeka, Caroline,; Kalb, Don,; Kapferer, Bruce,; Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth,; Rigi, Jakob,; Taylor, Christopher C.,; Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios,
• HerausgeberIn: Gold, Marina,; Kapferer, Bruce,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume reconceptualizes the discipline of anthropology in a radical way....

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction Reconceptualizing the Discipline
• I Orientations
• Steps Away from Moralism
• Moral Anthropology and A Priori Enunciations
• The Question of Ethics and Morality
• Why I Will Not Make It as a “Moral Anthropologist”
• II Situating Morality Ethnographically
• Facts, Values, Morality, and Anthropology
• Moral Anthropology, Human Rights, and Egalitarianism, or the AAA boycott
• Empathy, as Affective Ethical Technology and Transformative Political Praxis
• Anthropology’s Atavistic Turn An Animist Perspective
• III Moral Anthropology: An Antipolitics Machine
• The Horizon of Freedom and Ethic s of Singularity The Social Individual and the Necessity of Reloading the Spirit of 1968
• An Obscure Desire for Catastrophe
• Situating Morality
• Afterword A Parthian Shot