{"product_id":"engaging-evil-a-moral-anthropology-9781789202137","title":"Engaging Evil: A Moral Anthropology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAnthropologists 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 category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The volume brings nuance, complexity and ethnographic thickness to recent debates in moral anthropology, showing that anthropology is far from being ‘secure’ in its distinction between good and evil while studying suffering, and that an anthropology of evil must complement the anthropology of the good. The book is a must for anthropologists working on morality, but it is also an enticing invitation for those working on suffering, violence and structural injustice to explore the usefulness of evil as analytical category, beyond the study of emic notions.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Social Anthropology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The various contributions offer a rich and highly variegated overview of how anthropologists have dealt with ‘evil’ and thus give a good idea of the baffling variety hiding behind this notion.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Peter Geschiere\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Amsterdam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWilliam C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: EVIL AND ANTHROPOLOGY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eFrom Theodicy to Homodicy: Evil as an Anthropological Problem\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThomas Csordas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e On the Concept of “Evil” in Anthropological Analyses and Political Violence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eByron Good\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: EVIL AND SUFFERING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eSpeak No Evil: Inversion and Evasion in Indonesia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndrew Beatty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eMother Evil in Hell Valley: A Creole Transvalorisation of Evil in Trinidad\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRoland Littlewood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eSatan on the Old Kent Road: Articulations of Evil in a Pentecostal Diaspora\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSimon Coleman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Transformation of Evil in Nepal\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Gellner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eRadical Evil and the Notion of Conscience: A Buddhist Meditation on Christian Soteriology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGananath Obeyesekere\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eAre Spirits Satanic? The Ambiguity of Evil in Niger\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAdeline Masqulier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: EVIL AND VIOLENCE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eEngaging Evil and Excess in Palestine \/ Israel\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJulie Peteet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Violence of Evil: A Biocultural Approach to Violence, Memory, and Pain\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVentura Perez\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Intention of Evil: Asram in Asante\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWilliam C. 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