Ordinary Ethics : Anthropology, Language, and Action / ed. by Michael Lambek.
Antze, Paul, contributor.; Baker, Judith, contributor.; Caton, Steven C., contributor.; Das, Veena, contributor.; Dave, Naisargi N., contributor.; Day, Sophie, contributor.; Faubion, James D., contributor.; Keane, Webb, contributor.; Kwon, Heonik, contributor.; Laidlaw, James, contributor.; Lambek, Michael, contributor.; Lambek, Michael, editor.; Londono Sulkin, Carlos David, contributor.; Merlan, Francesca, contributor.; Richland, Justin B., contributor.; Rumsey, Alan, contributor.; Sidnell, Jack, contributor.; Stafford, Charles, contributor.; Weeratunge, Nireka, contributor.; Yeung, Shirley, contributor.; Young, Donna, contributor.
2022
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Title
Ordinary Ethics : Anthropology, Language, and Action / ed. by Michael Lambek.
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9780823292318
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New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (482 p.)
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10.1515/9780823292318 doi
Summary
What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is a common experience of most ethnographers that the people we encounter are trying to do what they consider right or good, are being evaluated according to criteria of what is right and good, or are in some debate about what constitutes the human good. Yet anthropological theory has tended to overlook all this in favor of analyses that emphasize structure, power, and interest. 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. In addition to deepening our understanding of ethics, the volume makes an incisive and necessary intervention in anthropological theory, recasting discussion in ways that force us to rethink such concepts as power, agency, and relativism. Individual chapters consider the place of ethics with respect to conversation and interaction; judgment and responsibility; formality, etiquette, performance, ritual, and law; character and empathy; social boundaries and exclusions; socialization and punishment; and commemoration, history, and living together in peace and war. Together they offer a comprehensive portrait of an approach that is now critical for advancing anthropological theory and ethnographic description, as well as fruitful conversation with philosophy.
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Antze, Paul, contributor.
Baker, Judith, contributor.
Caton, Steven C., contributor.
Das, Veena, contributor.
Dave, Naisargi N., contributor.
Day, Sophie, contributor.
Faubion, James D., contributor.
Keane, Webb, contributor.
Kwon, Heonik, contributor.
Laidlaw, James, contributor.
Lambek, Michael, contributor.
Lambek, Michael, editor.
Londono Sulkin, Carlos David, contributor.
Merlan, Francesca, contributor.
Richland, Justin B., contributor.
Rumsey, Alan, contributor.
Sidnell, Jack, contributor.
Stafford, Charles, contributor.
Weeratunge, Nireka, contributor.
Yeung, Shirley, contributor.
Young, Donna, contributor.
Baker, Judith, contributor.
Caton, Steven C., contributor.
Das, Veena, contributor.
Dave, Naisargi N., contributor.
Day, Sophie, contributor.
Faubion, James D., contributor.
Keane, Webb, contributor.
Kwon, Heonik, contributor.
Laidlaw, James, contributor.
Lambek, Michael, contributor.
Lambek, Michael, editor.
Londono Sulkin, Carlos David, contributor.
Merlan, Francesca, contributor.
Richland, Justin B., contributor.
Rumsey, Alan, contributor.
Sidnell, Jack, contributor.
Stafford, Charles, contributor.
Weeratunge, Nireka, contributor.
Yeung, Shirley, contributor.
Young, Donna, contributor.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Part One. Theoretical Frameworks
Part Two. The Ethics of Speaking
Part Three. Responsibility and Agency
Part Four. Punishment and Personal Dignity
Part Five. Ethics and Formality
Part Six. Ethical Subjects: Character and Practice
Part Seven. Ethical Life: Encounters with History, Religion, and the Political
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Part One. Theoretical Frameworks
Part Two. The Ethics of Speaking
Part Three. Responsibility and Agency
Part Four. Punishment and Personal Dignity
Part Five. Ethics and Formality
Part Six. Ethical Subjects: Character and Practice
Part Seven. Ethical Life: Encounters with History, Religion, and the Political
Bibliography
Index