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The ethnography of moralities /

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 questi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Howell, Signe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.