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The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics

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The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics

The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics

James Laidlaw, University of Cambridge
May 2023
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    The 'ethical turn' in anthropology has been one of the most vibrant fields in the discipline in the past quarter-century. It has fostered new dialogue between anthropology and philosophy, psychology, and theology and seen a wealth of theoretical innovation and influential ethnographic studies. This book brings together a global team of established and emerging leaders in the field and makes the results of this fast-growing body of diverse research available in one volume. Topics covered include: the philosophical and other intellectual sources of the ethical turn; inter-disciplinary dialogues; emerging conceptualizations of core aspects of ethical agency such as freedom, responsibility, and affect; and the diverse ways in which ethical thought and practice are institutionalized in social life, both intimate and institutional. Authoritative and cutting-edge, it is essential reading for researchers and students in anthropology, philosophy, psychology and theology, and will set the agenda for future research in the field.

    • Introduces readers to the theoretical diversity of the anthropology of ethics
    • Promotes inter-disciplinary dialogue on the study of ethics
    • Shows how perspectives from the anthropology of ethics provide unique insights in the study of all aspects of social life

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    ‘All in all: a collection in which many essays are bursting with the joy of discovery, and which, as far as I am concerned, will hopefully be followed by a focused and fruitful collaboration between anthropologists on the one hand and ethicists and practical theologians on the other.’ G.C. den Hertog, Theologia Reformata

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    May 2023
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    9781108482806
    725 pages
    250 × 176 × 56 mm
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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction James Laidlaw
    • Part I. Intellectual Sources and Disciplinary Engagements:
    • 2. Moral and political philosophy Hallvard Lillehammer
    • 3. Virtue ethics Jonathan Mair
    • 4. Agonistic pluralists James Laidlaw and Patrick McKearney
    • 5. The two faces of Michel Foucault Paolo Heywood
    • 6. Phenomenology Samuel Williams
    • 7. Cognitive science Harry Walker and Natalia Buitron
    • 8. Theology Michael Banner
    • Part II. Aspects of Ethical Agency:
    • 9. Making the ethical in social interaction Webb Keane and Michael Lempert
    • 10. Freedom Soumhya Venkatesan
    • 11. Responsibility Catherine Trundle
    • 12. Emotion and affect Teresa Kuan
    • 13. Happiness and wellbeing Edward F. Fischer and Sam Victor
    • 14. Suffering and sympathy Abby Mack and C. Jason Throop
    • 15. Ambiguity and difference Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller
    • Part III. Media and Modes of Ethical Practice:
    • 16. Self-cultivation Joanna Cook
    • 17. Exemplars Nicholas H. A. Evans
    • 18. Ritual Letha Victor and Michael Lambek
    • 19. Values Julian Sommerschuh and Joel Robbins
    • 20. Rules Morgan Clarke
    • 21. On ethical pedagogies James D. Faubion
    • Part IV. Intimate and Everyday Life:
    • 22. Care Cheryl Mattingly and Patrick McKearney
    • 23. Kinship and love Perveez Mody
    • 24. Cooperation and punishment Anni Kajanus and Charles Stafford
    • 25. Favours David Henig and Nicolette Makovicky
    • 26. The inimical gaze Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin
    • 27. Animals Rosie Jones-McVey
    • 28. God T. M. Luhrmann
    • Part V. Institutional Life:
    • 29. Modern capitalism and ethical plurality Robert W. Hefner
    • 30. The ethics of trade and commerce Paul Anderson and Magnus Marsden
    • 31. Activism and political organization Sian Lazar
    • 32. Philanthropy China Scherz
    • 33. Science Matei Candea
    • 34. Communist morality under socialism Yunxiang Yan.
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    • James Laidlaw, Hallvard Lillehammer, Jonathan Mair, Patrick McKearney, Paolo Heywood, Samuel Williams, Harry Walker, Natalia Buitron, Michael Banner, Webb Keane, Michael Lempert, Soumhya Venkatesan, Catherine Trundle, Teresa Kuan, Edward F. Fischer, Sam Victor, Abby Mack, C. Jason Throop, Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Joanna Cook, Nicholas H. A. Evans, Letha Victor, Michael Lambek, Julian Sommerschuh, Joel Robbins, Morgan Clarke, James D. Faubion, Cheryl Mattingly, Perveez Mody, Anni Kajanus, Charles Stafford, David Henig, Nicolette Makovicky, Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin, Rosie Jones-McVey, T. M. Luhrmann, Robert W. Hefner, Paul Anderson, Magnus Marsden, Sian Lazar, China Scherz, Matei Candea, Yunxiang Yan

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    • James Laidlaw , University of Cambridge

      James Laidlaw is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. He is the author of The Archetypal Actions of Ritual (with Caroline Humphrey, 1994), Riches and Renunciation (1995), and The Subject of Virtue (2014), and the editor of The Essential Edmund Leach (with Stephen Hugh-Jones, 2000), Ritual and Memory (with Harvey Whitehouse, 2004), Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science (with Harvey Whitehouse, 2007), and Recovering the Human Subject (with Barbara Bodenhorn and Martin Holbraad, 2018).

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