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In: Theory now
In: New Departures in Anthropology
"Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive features. He further argues that Foucault's framework is in need of substantial revision to be of genuinely anthropological scope. In making this revision, Faubion illustrates his program with two extended case studies: one of a Portuguese marquis and the other of a dual subject made up of the author and a millenarian prophetess. The result is a conceptual apparatus that is able to accommodate ethical pluralism and yield an account of the limits of ethical variation, providing a novel resolution of the problem of relativism that has haunted anthropological inquiry into ethics since its inception"--
In: Princeton studies in culture, power, history
In: The Cambridge journal of anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1
ISSN: 2047-7716
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 113, Issue 2, p. 371-372
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Anthropological quarterly: AQ, Volume 76, Issue 1, p. 71-85
ISSN: 1534-1518
In: Postmodern culture, Volume 10, Issue 3
ISSN: 1053-1920
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 101, Issue 2, p. 452-453
ISSN: 1548-1433
Portrait of. Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis. Michael Herzfeld. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 333 pp.
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 99, Issue 3, p. 669-670
ISSN: 1548-1433
Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean: The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle. Vassos Argyrou. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 210 pp.
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Volume 38, Issue 1, p. 67-91
ISSN: 1475-2999
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 97, Issue 1, p. 182-183
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Annual review of anthropology, Volume 22, Issue 1, p. 35-54
ISSN: 1545-4290
In: Essential works of Foucault 1954-1984 Vol. 3