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Book Synopsis A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume reconceptualizes the discipline of anthropology in a radical way. Contributions from anthropologists from around the world from different theoretical traditions and with expertise in a multiplicity of ethnographic areas makes this collection a provocative contribution to larger discussions not only in anthropology but the social sciences more broadly.
Trade Review “The thirteen texts cobbled together in this light book (physically, not intellectually) are fairly short but no less penetrating in their analytical insight for that. They hit hard at the discomforts and inner tensions of contemporary anthropological theory and practice, making Moral Anthropology: A Critique mandatory reading for anyone puzzled by the buzzing if problematic area of inquiry that is the anthropology of moralities.” • Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Table of Contents Introduction: Reconceptualising the Discipline
PART I: THE CASE AGAINST MORAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Chapter 1. Why I Will Not Make It as a ‘Moral Anthropologist’
Don Kalb
Chapter 2. Steps Away from Moralism
Martin Holbraad
Chapter 3. Not Beyond Good and Evil: The Ethics of Anthropology and the Anthropology of Ethics
Kirsten Bell
Chapter 4. An Obscure Desire for Catastrophe
Rohan Bastin
PART II: MORAL ISSUES IN CONTEXT
Chapter 5. Facts, Values, Morality, and Anthropology
Christopher C. Taylor
Chapter 6. Moral Anthropology, Human Rights and Egalitarianism or The AAA boycott
Marina Gold
Chaprter 7. Anthropology’s Atavistic Turn : An Animist Perspective
Caroline Ifeka
PART III: PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS
Chapter 8. Empathy, As Affective Ethical Technology and Transformative Political Praxis
Elisabeth Kirtsoglou & Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Chapter 9. The Question of Ethics and Morality
Terry Evens
PART IV: A BROADER VIEW IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Chapter 10. The Horizon of Freedom and Ethics of Singularity: The Social Individual and the Necessity of Reloading the Spirit of 1968
Jakob Rigi
Chapter 11. Situating Morality
Jonathan Friedman
