The ethnography of moralities /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 234 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethics -- Cross-cultural studies. Values -- Cross-cultural studies. Ethics. Values. Electronic books. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11179559

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Other authors / contributors:	Howell, Signe.
ISBN:	0203974190 9780203974193 0415133599 0415133580 9780415133586 9780415133593
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The social construction of morality is a complex and challenging topic which is central to the anthropological discipline. Until recently, however, it has received little direct attention from anthropologists. With the growing interest in indigenous notions of self and personhood, and related questions regarding human rights, issues pertaining to moral and ethical groundings of social life have become increasingly relevant. So far, however, few anthropologists have concerned themselves with disentangling 'moralities' and how one might set about studying them in empirical settings. The focus for The Enthnography of Moralities was chosen precisely in order to raise a debate around the empirical study of different moral discourses and how these are related to social institutions, to indigenous concepts of human nature (male and female), to cosmology and to the nature of good and evil.
Other form:	Print version: Ethnography of moralities. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Signe Howell
1. Exemplars and rules: aspects of the discourse of moralities in Mongolia / Caroline Humphrey
2. 'I lied, I farted, I stole ... ': dignity and morality in African discourses on personhood / Anita Jacobson-Widding
3. The morality of locality: on the absolutism of landownership in an English village / Nigel Rapport
4. The moralities of Argentinian football / Eduardo P. Archetti
5. Double standards / Marilyn Strathern
6. Inside an 'exhausted community': an essay on case-reconstructive research about peripheral and the other moralities / Andre Gingrich
7. The troubles of virtue: values of violence and suffering in a Mexican context / Marit Melhuus.

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