Engaging Evil : : A Moral Anthropology / / ed. by Thomas J. Csordas, William C. Olsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Beatty, Andrew,; Coleman, Simon,; Csordas, Thomas J.,; Gellner, David N.,; Good, Byron J.,; Littlewood, Roland,; Masquelier, Adeline,; Obeyesekere, Gananath,; Olsen, William C.,; Parkin, David,; Peteet, Julie,; Pérez, Ventura R.,; Weiss, Nerina,
• HerausgeberIn: Csordas, Thomas J.,; Olsen, William C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; PART I Evil and Anthropology --; Chapter 1 FROM THEODICY TO HOMODICY: EVIL AS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROBLEM --; Chapter 2 ON THE CONCEPT OF “EVIL” IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE --; PART II Evil and Suffering --; Chapter 3 SPEAK NO EVIL: INVERSION AND EVASION IN INDONESIA --; Chapter 4 MOTHER EVIL IN HELL VALLEY: A CREOLE TRANSVALORIZATION OF EVIL IN TRINIDAD --; Chapter 5 SATAN ON THE OLD KENT ROAD: ARTICULATIONS OF EVIL IN A PENTECOSTAL DIASPORA --; Chapter 6 THE TRANSFORMATION OF EVIL IN NEPAL --; Chapter 7 RADICAL EVIL AND THE NOTION OF CONSCIENCE: A BUDDHIST MEDITATION ON CHRISTIAN SOTERIOLOGY --; Chapter 8 ARE SPIRITS SATANIC? THE AMBIGUITY OF EVIL IN NIGER --; PART III Evil and Violence --; Chapter 9 ENGAGING EVIL AND EXCESS IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL --; Chapter 10 THE VIOLENCE OF EVIL: A BIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO VIOLENCE, MEMORY, AND PAIN --; Chapter 11 THE INTENTION OF EVIL: ASRAM IN ASANTE --; Chapter 12 MONSTERS, SADISTS, AND THE UNSPECTACULAR TORTURE EXPERIENCE --; AFTERWORD --; AUTHORS AND INSTITUTIONS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789202144; 9783110997729
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789202144?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Thomas J. Csordas, William C. Olsen.

Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.