Engaging Evil (eBook)

A Moral Anthropology

William C. Olsen, Thomas J. Csordas (Herausgeber)

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2019
322 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-214-4 (ISBN)

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Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Methodology & History in Anthropology
• Reihe/Serie: Methodology & History in Anthropology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: academic debate • academic studies • african kingship • Alterity • Anthropology • anthropology history • Anthropology of Evil • Buddhism • Christianity • Criminality • Culture • Dimensions of Evil • Durkheim • ethics • Ethics of Knowledge • Evil • Evil as Descriptive Reality • explicit evil • hatred • history reference • humanitarianism • Humanity • implicit evil • Indonesia • Inversion • Israel • Kilimanjaro • Kingship • malevolance • methods of anthropology • monsters • monstrous • Moral • moral agency • Moral Behaviour • moral code • Morality • Moral Systems • Myth • Nepal • New Developments • new methods • Niger • non knowledge • Ontology • Palestine • Pentecostal Diaspora • personifying evil • Religion • Ritual • Satan • situational evil • Social • Structural Injustice • Suffering • The Dark Side of Human Nature • Torture • Trinidad • Violence • Witchcraft
• ISBN-10: 1-78920-214-0 / 1789202140
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-214-4 / 9781789202144