The Anthropology of Moralities / / ed. by Monica Heintz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Goodale, Mark,; Heintz, Monica,; Howell, Signe,; Ladwig, Patrice,; Rasanayagam, Johan,; Robbins, Joel,; Rydstrøm, Helle,; Sykes, Karen,; Widlok, Thomas,; Zigon, Jarrett,
• HerausgeberIn: Heintz, Monica,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)

Anthropologists have been keenly aware of the tension between cultural relativism and absolute norms, and nowhere has this been more acute than with regards to moral values. Can we study the Other’s morality without applying our own normative judgments? How do social anthropologists keep both the di...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: WHY THERE SHOULD BE AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF MORALITIES
• Chapter 2 NORM AND SPONTANEITY: ELICITATION WITH MORAL DILEMMA SCENARIOS
• Chapter 3 LIFE HISTORY AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: THE MORAL CONCEPTIONS OF A MUSCOVITE MAN
• Chapter 4 MORALITY, VALUE AND RADICAL CULTURAL CHANGE
• Chapter 5 ACCELERATED GLOBALISATION AND THE CONFLICTS OF VALUES SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
• Chapter 6 MORALITY, SELF AND POWER: THE IDEA OF THE MAHALLA IN UZBEKISTAN
• Chapter 7 MORALISING FEMALE SEXUALITY: THE INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN MORALITY AND SEXUALITY IN RURAL VIETNAM
• Chapter 8 NARRATIVE ETHICS: THE EXCESS OF GIVING AND MORAL AMBIGUITY IN THE LAO VESSANTARA-JATAKA
• Chapter 9 ADOPTING AN OBLIGATION: MORAL REASONING ABOUT BOUGAINVILLEAN CHILDREN’S ACCESS TO SOCIAL SERVICES IN NEW IRELAND
• Chapter 10 BETWEEN FACTS AND NORMS: TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF ETHICAL PRACTICE
• REFERENCES
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX