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Title Ethnographies of moral reasoning : living paradoxes of a global age / edited by Karen Sykes
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 206 pages)
Contents Residence : moral reason in a common place : paradoxes of a global age / Karen Sykes -- Privatization : jokes, scandal, and absurdity in a time of rapid change / Catherine Alexander -- Charity : conversations about need and greed / Soumhya Venkatesan -- Custom : the limits of reciprocity in village resettlement / Keir Martin -- Corruption : insights into combating corruption in rural development / Alpa Shah -- Fakes : frauds, value-anxiety, and the politics of sincerity / Susanne Brandtstädter -- Sacra : rumors about the moral force of ritual objects as public art / Karen Sykes -- After words : from ethos to pathos / C.A. Gregory
Summary These astute essays describe the way ordinary people value human relationships and reason through the commonplace contradictions of their local way of life in a global age, rather than measure the actions of their subjects as evidence of either universal rationality or shared cultural beliefs. Each contributor conveys the ways in which people challenge the ascribed moral standards of custom, religious belief, bureaucratic policies through passionate words such as anecdotes, joke, rumors, and gossip. By evaluating moral reasoning at a local level, contributors work to answer the question, what is a good life
Notes "This collection of essays is the product of a series of workshops over a long period where the organizing themes were debated and modified and drafts of the articles discussed and revised"--Page 189
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethics -- Congresses
Ethnology -- Congresses
Practical reason -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics
Ethnology
Practical reason
Volkskunde
Globalisierung
Ethischer Pluralismus
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Sykes, Karen Margaret, 1960-
ISBN 9780230617957
0230617956
9780230609815
0230609813
9781349376254
1349376256