| Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives Contributor(s): Lambek, Michael (Author), Das, Veena (Author), Fassin, Didier (Author) |
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ISBN: 0990505073 ISBN-13: 9780990505075 Publisher: Hau OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 170 |
| LCCN: 2015952085 |
| Series: Hau - Masterclass |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field--Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane--to discuss, via lectures and responses, important topics facing anthropological ethics and the theoretical debates that surround it. The authors explore the ways we understand morality across many different cultural settings, asking questions such as: How do we recognize the ethical in different ethnographic worlds? What constitutes agency and awareness in everyday life? What might an anthropology of ordinary ethics look like? And what happens when ethics approaches the political in both Western and non-Western societies. Contrasting perspectives and methods--and yet in complimentary ways--this masterclass will serve as an essential guide for how an anthropology of ethics can be formulated in the twenty-first century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fassin, Didier: - Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.Lambek, Michael: - Michael Lambek is professor of anthropology and a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of several books, most recently The Weight of the Past, and editor or coeditor of several more, including Ordinary Ethics and A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion. Das, Veena: - Veena Das is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.Keane, Webb: - Webb Keane is the George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan. |