Engaging Evil: A Moral Anthropology (Methodology & History in Anthropology, 36) - Softcover

Buch 14 von 22: Methodology & History in Anthropology
 
9781800736405: Engaging Evil: A Moral Anthropology (Methodology & History in Anthropology, 36)

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Thomas J. Csordas is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and James Y. Chan Presidential Chair in Global Health at the University of California, San Diego.

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