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Title The anthropology of moralities / edited by Monica Heintz
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 221 pages .)
Contents Introduction: Why there should be an anthropology of moralities / Monica Heintz -- Norm and spontaneity : elicitation with moral dilemma scenarios / Thomas Widlok -- Life history and personal experience : the moral conceptions of a Muscovite man / Jarrett Zigon -- Morality, value and radical cultural change / Joel Robbins -- Accelerated globalisation and the conflicts of values seen through the lens of transnational adoption : a comparative perspective / Signe Howell -- Morality, self and power : the idea of the mahalla in Uzbekistan / Johan Rasanayagam -- Moralising female sexuality : the intersections between morality and sexuality in rural Vietnam / Helle Rystrøm -- Narrative ethics : the excess of giving and moral ambiguity in the Lao Vessantara-Jataka / Patrice Ladwig -- Adopting an obligation : moral reasoning about Bougainvillean children's access to social services in New Ireland / Karen Sykes -- Between facts and norms : towards an anthropology of ethical practice / Mark Goodale
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cultural relativism.
Social values.
Sittlichkeit.
Sozialanthropologie.
Culturele antropologie.
Interculturele vergelijking.
Moraal.
Cultural relativism.
Social values.
Form Electronic book
Author Heintz, Monica.
ISBN 1845459385
9781845459383