Ordinary Ethics : Anthropology, Language, and Action.
Lambek, Michael.
Ordinary Ethics : Anthropology, Language, and Action. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (478 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Theoretical Frameworks -- Toward An Ethics Of The Act -- Minds, Surfaces, And Reasons In The Anthropology Of Ethics -- From The Ethical To The Themitical (And Back): Groundwork For An Anthropology Of Ethics -- The Ethics Of Speaking -- Ethics, Language, And Human Sociality -- The Ordinary Ethics Of Everyday Talk -- Responsibility And Agency -- Agency And Responsibility: Perhaps You Can Have Too Much Of A Good Thing -- Abu Ghraib And The Problem Of Evil -- Punishment And Personal Dignity -- The Punishment Of Ethical Behavior -- Ordinary Ethics And Changing Cosmologies: Exemplification From North Australia -- Philosophical Comments On Charles Stafford And Francesca Merlan -- Ethics And Formality -- Natural Manners: Etiquette, Ethics, And Sincerity In American Conduct Manuals -- ''They Did It Like A Song'': Ethics, Aesthetics, And Tradition In Hopi Legal Discourse -- Ethical Subjects: Character And Practice -- People Of No Substance: Imposture And The Contingency Of Morality In The Colombian Amazon -- Ethics Between Public And Private: Sex Workers' Relationships In London -- On The Pragmatics Of Empathy In The Neurodiversity Movement -- Being Sadharana: Talking About The Just Business Person In Sri Lanka -- Ethical Life: Encounters With History, Religion, And The Political -- Engaging Others: Religious Conviction And Irony In The Holy Lands -- Between Queer Ethics And Sexual Morality -- Engaging The Life Of The Other: Love And Everyday Life -- The Ghosts Of War And The Ethics Of Memory -- Bibliography -- Index.
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 ethical practice, 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.
9780823233182
Anthropological ethics.
Electronic books.
GN33.6 -- .O74 2010eb
306
Ordinary Ethics : Anthropology, Language, and Action. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (478 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Theoretical Frameworks -- Toward An Ethics Of The Act -- Minds, Surfaces, And Reasons In The Anthropology Of Ethics -- From The Ethical To The Themitical (And Back): Groundwork For An Anthropology Of Ethics -- The Ethics Of Speaking -- Ethics, Language, And Human Sociality -- The Ordinary Ethics Of Everyday Talk -- Responsibility And Agency -- Agency And Responsibility: Perhaps You Can Have Too Much Of A Good Thing -- Abu Ghraib And The Problem Of Evil -- Punishment And Personal Dignity -- The Punishment Of Ethical Behavior -- Ordinary Ethics And Changing Cosmologies: Exemplification From North Australia -- Philosophical Comments On Charles Stafford And Francesca Merlan -- Ethics And Formality -- Natural Manners: Etiquette, Ethics, And Sincerity In American Conduct Manuals -- ''They Did It Like A Song'': Ethics, Aesthetics, And Tradition In Hopi Legal Discourse -- Ethical Subjects: Character And Practice -- People Of No Substance: Imposture And The Contingency Of Morality In The Colombian Amazon -- Ethics Between Public And Private: Sex Workers' Relationships In London -- On The Pragmatics Of Empathy In The Neurodiversity Movement -- Being Sadharana: Talking About The Just Business Person In Sri Lanka -- Ethical Life: Encounters With History, Religion, And The Political -- Engaging Others: Religious Conviction And Irony In The Holy Lands -- Between Queer Ethics And Sexual Morality -- Engaging The Life Of The Other: Love And Everyday Life -- The Ghosts Of War And The Ethics Of Memory -- Bibliography -- Index.
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 ethical practice, 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.
9780823233182
Anthropological ethics.
Electronic books.
GN33.6 -- .O74 2010eb
306