Engaging Evil : : A Moral Anthropology /

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

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 ca...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (322 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t FIGURES --   |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --   |t INTRODUCTION --   |t PART I Evil and Anthropology --   |t Chapter 1 FROM THEODICY TO HOMODICY: EVIL AS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROBLEM --   |t Chapter 2 ON THE CONCEPT OF “EVIL” IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE --   |t PART II Evil and Suffering --   |t Chapter 3 SPEAK NO EVIL: INVERSION AND EVASION IN INDONESIA --   |t Chapter 4 MOTHER EVIL IN HELL VALLEY: A CREOLE TRANSVALORIZATION OF EVIL IN TRINIDAD --   |t Chapter 5 SATAN ON THE OLD KENT ROAD: ARTICULATIONS OF EVIL IN A PENTECOSTAL DIASPORA --   |t Chapter 6 THE TRANSFORMATION OF EVIL IN NEPAL --   |t Chapter 7 RADICAL EVIL AND THE NOTION OF CONSCIENCE: A BUDDHIST MEDITATION ON CHRISTIAN SOTERIOLOGY --   |t Chapter 8 ARE SPIRITS SATANIC? THE AMBIGUITY OF EVIL IN NIGER --   |t PART III Evil and Violence --   |t Chapter 9 ENGAGING EVIL AND EXCESS IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL --   |t Chapter 10 THE VIOLENCE OF EVIL: A BIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO VIOLENCE, MEMORY, AND PAIN --   |t Chapter 11 THE INTENTION OF EVIL: ASRAM IN ASANTE --   |t Chapter 12 MONSTERS, SADISTS, AND THE UNSPECTACULAR TORTURE EXPERIENCE --   |t AFTERWORD --   |t AUTHORS AND INSTITUTIONS --   |t INDEX 
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