Ethnographies of Moral Reasoning - Living Paradoxes of a Global Age

Zusatztext "Anthropologists have become used to people's voices! 'analyses' even - this book breaks new ground by listening to 'arguments'. Arguments over what's best or right! moments of doubt or paradox about what's worthwhile! conundrums that need reasoning through. The approach is an enriching one!offering a novel purchase on the predicaments of social values in flux." - Marilyn Strathern! Professor of Social Anthropology! Cambridge University. Informationen zum Autor KAREN SYKES is Senior Lecturer of Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK. Klappentext Rather than measure the actions of their subjects by reference to either universal rationality or cultural relativism! contributors in this volume describe ordinary people as they value human relationships and reason through the commonplace contradictions of their local way of life in a global age. Zusammenfassung Rather than measure the actions of their subjects by reference to either universal rationality or cultural relativism! contributors in this volume describe ordinary people as they value human relationships and reason through the commonplace contradictions of their local way of life in a global age. Inhaltsverzeichnis Residence Valuers and Value: Words on an Uncommon Ground Privatization; C.Alexander Charity; S.Venkatesan Contestations of the Standards of Value Custom; K.Martin Corruption; A.Shah Moral Ambiguity and Paradoxes of Value Fakes; S.Brandtstadter Sacra; K.Sykes From Ethos to Pathos; C.A.Gregory

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Residence Valuers and Value: Words on an Uncommon Ground Privatization; C.Alexander Charity; S.Venkatesan Contestations of the Standards of Value Custom; K.Martin Corruption; A.Shah Moral Ambiguity and Paradoxes of Value Fakes; S.Brandtstadter Sacra; K.Sykes From Ethos to Pathos; C.A.Gregory

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"Anthropologists have become used to people's voices, 'analyses' even - this book breaks new ground by listening to 'arguments'. Arguments over what's best or right, moments of doubt or paradox about what's worthwhile, conundrums that need reasoning through. The approach is an enriching one,offering a novel purchase on the predicaments of social values in flux." - Marilyn Strathern, Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University.

Product details

• Authors: K. Sykes
• Assisted by: Sykes (Editor), K Sykes (Editor), K. Sykes (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2009
• EAN: 9781349376254
• ISBN: 978-1-349-37625-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Cultural Anthropology, Astronomie, Raum und Zeit, Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, astronomy, Anthropology, Astrophysics, comparative religion, Geologie und die Lithosphäre, Ethnology, Social & cultural anthropology, geology, Geology, geomorphology & the lithosphere, Social Anthropology, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Theoretical & mathematical astronomy, Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences, Sociocultural Anthropology, Religions, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection