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Ordinary ethics, anthropology, language, and action, edited by Michael Lambek

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Ordinary ethics

bibliography

edited by Michael Lambek

anthropology, language, and action

Toward an ethics of the act / Michael Lambek -- Mind, surfaces, and reasons in the anthropology of ethics / Webb Keane -- From the ethical to the themitical (and back): groundwork for an anthropology of ethics / James D. Faubion -- Ethics, language, and human sociality / Alan Rumsey -- The ordinary ethics of everyday talk / Jack Sidnell -- Agency and responsibility: perhaps you can have too much of a good thing / James Laidlaw -- Abu Ghraib and the problem of evil / Steven C. Caton -- The punishment of ethical behavior / Charles Stafford -- Ordinary ethics and changing cosmologies: exemplification from north Australia / Francesca Merlan -- Philosophical comments on Charles Stafford and Francesca Merlan / Judith Baker -- Natural manners: etiquette, ethics, and sincerity in American conduct manuals / Shirley Yeung -- "They did it like a song": ethics, aesthetics, and tradition in Hopi legal discourse / Justin B. Richland -- People of no substance: imposture and the contingency of morality in the Colombian Amazon / Carlos David Londoño Sulkin -- Ethics between public and private: sex workers' relationships in London / Sophie Day -- On the pragmatics of empathy in the neurodiversity movement / Paul Antze -- Being Sadharana: talking about the just business person in Sri Lanka / Nireka Weeratunge -- Engaging others: religious conviction and irony in the holy lands / Donna Young -- Between queer ethics and sexual morality / Naisargi N. Dave -- Engaging in the life of the other: love and everyday life / Veena Das -- The ghosts of War and the ethics of memory / Heonik Kwon