Moral Anthropology: A Critique

Moral Anthropology -- Contents -- Introduction: Reconceptualizing the Discipline -- I: Orientations -- Steps Away from Moralism -- Moral Anthropology and A Priori Enunciations -- The Question of Ethics and Morality -- Why I Will Not Make It as a "Moral Anthropologist" -- II: Situating Morality Ethnographically -- Facts, Values, Morality, and Anthropology -- Moral Anthropology, Human Rights, and Egalitarianism, or the AAA boycott -- Empathy, as Affective Ethical Technology and Transformative Political Praxis -- Anthropology's Atavistic Turn: An Animist Perspective -- III: Moral Anthropology: An Antipolitics Machine -- The Horizon of Freedom and Ethics of Singularity: The Social Individual and the Necessity of Reloading the Spirit of 1968 -- An Obscure Desire for Catastrophe -- Situating Morality -- Afterword: A Parthian Shot

Introduction : reconceptualising the discipline / Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold -- Steps away from moralism / Martin Holbraad -- Moral anthropology and a priori enunciations / Kirsten Bell -- The question of ethics and morality / Terry Evens -- Why i will not make it as a "moral anthropologist" / Don Kalb -- Facts, values, morality, and anthropology / Christopher C. Taylor -- Moral anthropology, human rights, and egalitarianism, or the aaa boycott / Marina Gold -- Empathy, as affective ethical technology and transformative political praxis / Elisabeth Kirtsoglou and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Anthropology's atavistic turn : an animist perspective / Caroline Ifeka -- The horizon of freedom and ethics of singularity : the social individual and the necessity of reloading the spirit of 1968 / Jakob Rigi -- An obscure desire for catastrophe / Rohan Bastin -- Situating morality / Jonathan Friedman

Introduction : reconceptualising the discipline / Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold -- Steps away from moralism / Martin Holbraad -- Moral anthropology and a priori enunciations / Kirsten Bell -- The question of ethics and morality / Terry Evens -- Why i will not make it as a "moral anthropologist" / Don Kalb -- Facts, values, morality, and anthropology / Christopher C. Taylor -- Moral anthropology, human rights, and egalitarianism, or the aaa boycott / Marina Gold -- Empathy, as affective ethical technology and transformative political praxis / Elisabeth Kirtsoglou and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Anthropology's atavistic turn : an animist perspective / Caroline Ifeka -- The horizon of freedom and ethics of singularity : the social individual and the necessity of reloading the spirit of 1968 / Jakob Rigi -- An obscure desire for catastrophe / Rohan Bastin -- Situating morality / Jonathan Friedman.

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume reconceptualizes the discipline of anthropology in a radical way. Contributions from anthropologists from around the world from different theoretical traditions and with expertise in a multiplicity of ethnographic areas makes this collection a provocative contribution to larger discussions not only in anthropology but the social sciences more broadly

Introduction : reconceptualising the discipline / Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold -- Steps away from moralism / Martin Holbraad -- Moral anthropology and a priori enunciations / Kirsten Bell -- The question of ethics and morality / Terry Evens -- Why i will not make it as a "moral anthropologist" / Don Kalb -- Facts, values, morality, and anthropology / Christopher C. Taylor -- Moral anthropology, human rights, and egalitarianism, or the aaa boycott / Marina Gold -- Empathy, as affective ethical technology and transformative political praxis / Elisabeth Kirtsoglou and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Anthropology's atavistic turn : an animist perspective / Caroline Ifeka -- The horizon of freedom and ethics of singularity : the social individual and the necessity of reloading the spirit of 1968 / Jakob Rigi -- An obscure desire for catastrophe / Rohan Bastin -- Situating morality / Jonathan Friedman