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Abstract
A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume reconceptualizes the discipline of anthropology in a radical way. Contributions from anthropologists from around the world from different theoretical traditions and with expertise in a multiplicity of ethnographic areas makes this collection a provocative contribution to larger discussions not only in anthropology but the social sciences more broadly.
Marina Gold is research fellow in the department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, where she is part of the ERC Advanced Grant Egalitarianism Project. Her publications include articles in Social Analysis, and the Bulletin of Latin American Research and a recent monograph based on her research in Cuba, titled People and State in Socialist Cuba: Ideas and practices of Revolution (Palgrave 2015).
Bruce Kapferer is Honorary Professor University College London and Professor Emeritus, University of Bergen, where he is Director of the Egalitarianism Project supported by an ERC Advanced Grant. Has published widely on South Asia, Africa and Australia where he has done extensive anthropological fieldwork.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moral Anthropology | i | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Introduction: Reconceptualizing the Discipline\r | 1 | ||
| I: Orientations\r | 25 | ||
| Steps Away from Moralism\r | 27 | ||
| Moral Anthropology and \rA Priori Enunciations | 49 | ||
| The Question of Ethics and Morality\r | 57 | ||
| Why I Will Not Make It as a “Moral Anthropologist”\r | 65 | ||
| II: Situating Morality Ethnographically\r | 77 | ||
| Facts, Values, Morality, and Anthropology\r | 79 | ||
| Moral Anthropology, Human Rights, and Egalitarianism, or the AAA boycott\r | 88 | ||
| Empathy, as Affective Ethical Technology and Transformative Political Praxis\r | 104 | ||
| Anthropology’s Atavistic Turn: An Animist Perspective\r | 133 | ||
| III: Moral Anthropology: An Antipolitics Machine\r | 153 | ||
| The Horizon of Freedom and Ethics of Singularity: The Social Individual and the Necessity of Reloading the Spirit of 1968\r | 155 | ||
| An Obscure Desire for Catastrophe\r | 169 | ||
| Situating Morality\r | 182 | ||
| Afterword: A Parthian Shot\r | 199 |