Ethnographies of Moral Reasoning: Living Paradoxes of a Global Age

ISBN-13: 9781349376254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 206 str.

Karen Margaret Sykes; K. Sykes

Opis

"This collection of essays is the product of a series of workshops over a long period where the organizing themes were debated and modified and drafts of the articles discussed and revised"--P. [189].

Recenzje

"Anthropologists have become used to people's voices, 'analyses' even - this book breaks new ground by listening to 'arguments'. Arguments over what's best or right, moments of doubt or paradox about what's worthwhile, conundrums that need reasoning through. The approach is an enriching one,offering a novel purchase on the predicaments of social values in flux." - Marilyn Strathern, Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University.

Spis treści

Residence Valuers and Value: Words on an Uncommon Ground Privatization; C.Alexander Charity; S.Venkatesan Contestations of the Standards of Value Custom; K.Martin Corruption; A.Shah Moral Ambiguity and Paradoxes of Value Fakes; S.Brandtstadter Sacra; K.Sykes From Ethos to Pathos; C.A.Gregory

O autorze

KAREN SYKES is Senior Lecturer of Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK.