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Ordinary ethics : anthropology, language, and action / edited by Michael Lambek.
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1st edition
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New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2010.
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xvii, 458 pages ; 23 cm.
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Annotation What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is a common experience of most ethnographers that the people we encounter are trying to do what they consider right or good, are being evaluated according to criteria of what is right and good, or are in some debate about what constitutes the human good. Yet anthropological theory has tended to overlook all this in favor of analyses that emphasize structure, power, and interest. Bringing together ethnographic exposition with philosophical concepts and arguments and effectively transcending subdisciplinary boundaries between cultural and linguistic anthropology, the essays collected in this volume explore the ethical entailments of speech and action and demonstrate the centrality of ethicalpractice, judgment, reasoning, responsibility, cultivation, commitment, and questioning in social life. Rather than focus on codes of conduct or hot-button issues, they make the cumulative argument that ethics is profoundly "ordinary," pervasive - and possibly even intrinsic to speech and action. In addition to deepening our understanding of ethics, the volume makes an incisive and necessary intervention in anthropological theory, recasting discussion in ways that force us to rethink such concepts as power, agency, and relativism. Individual chapters consider the place of ethics with respect to conversation and interaction; judgment and responsibility; formality, etiquette, performance, ritual, and law; character and empathy; social boundaries and exclusions; socialization and punishment; and commemoration, history, and living together in peace and war. Together they offer a comprehensive portrait of an approach that is now critical for advancing anthropological theory and ethnographic description, as well as fruitful conversation with philosophy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Toward an ethics of the act / Michael Lambek
Mind, surfaces, and reasons in the anthropology of ethics / Webb Keane
From the ethical to the themitical (and back): groundwork for an anthropology of ethics / James D. Faubion
Ethics, language, and human sociality / Alan Rumsey
The ordinary ethics of everyday talk / Jack Sidnell
Agency and responsibility: perhaps you can have too much of a good thing / James Laidlaw
Abu Ghraib and the problem of evil / Steven C. Caton
The punishment of ethical behavior / Charles Stafford
Ordinary ethics and changing cosmologies: exemplification from north Australia / Francesca Merlan
Philosophical comments on Charles Stafford and Francesca Merlan / Judith Baker
Natural manners: etiquette, ethics, and sincerity in American conduct manuals / Shirley Yeung
"They did it like a song": ethics, aesthetics, and tradition in Hopi legal discourse / Justin B. Richland
People of no substance: imposture and the contingency of morality in the Colombian Amazon / Carlos David Londoño Sulkin
Ethics between public and private: sex workers' relationships in London / Sophie Day
On the pragmatics of empathy in the neurodiversity movement / Paul Antze
Being Sadharana: talking about the just business person in Sri Lanka / Nireka Weeratunge
Engaging others: religious conviction and irony in the holy lands / Donna Young
Between queer ethics and sexual morality / Naisargi N. Dave
Engaging in the life of the other: love and everyday life / Veena Das
The ghosts of War and the ethics of memory / Heonik Kwon.
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ISBN
9780823233168 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0823233162 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780823233175 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0823233170 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780823233182 ((ebook))
0823233189 ((ebook))
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2010033983
OCLC
630467973
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