A Companion to Moral Anthropology

“This thrilling survey at once points to a rich future for anthropology, without diminishing the ethical and moral debts contemporary anthropologists owe to their predecessors.”
- Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh

Didier Fassin (Edited by), D Fassin (Author)

9780470656457, Wiley

Hardback, published 24 August 2012

672 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 3.6 cm, 1.166 kg

“This thrilling survey at once points to a rich future for anthropology, without diminishing the ethical and moral debts contemporary anthropologists owe to their predecessors.”  (Expofairs.com, 1 March 2016)

A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts explore the various currents, approaches, and issues in this important new discipline, examining topics such as the ethnography of moralities, the study of moral subjectivities, and the exploration of moral economies.

• Investigates the central legacies of moral anthropology, the formation of moral facts and values, the context of local moralities, and the frontiers between moralities, politics, humanitarianism
• Features contributions from pioneers in the field of moral anthropology, as well as international experts in related fields such as moral philosophy, moral psychology, evolutionary biology and neuroethics

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction: Toward a Critical Moral Anthropology 1
Didier Fassin

Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]