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Moral Laboratories - Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (Paperback) Loot Price: R727
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Moral Laboratories - Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (Paperback): Cheryl Mattingly

Moral Laboratories - Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life (Paperback)

Cheryl Mattingly

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"Moral Laboratories" is at once an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray in the anthropology of morality. It takes us on a journey into the lives of African-American families caring for children with serious chronic medical conditions, foregrounding the uncertainty that affects their struggles for a good life. Challenging depictions of moral transformation as only possible in moments of breakdown or in radical breaches from the ordinary, it offers a compelling portrait of the transformative powers embedded in ordinary existence. From soccer fields to dinner tables, the everyday emerges as a potential moral laboratory for reshaping moral life. Mattingly offers vivid and heart-wrenching case stories to elaborate a first person ethical framework, forcefully showing the limits of third-person renderings of morality. In so doing, she deals with a complex history of philosophical and anthropological thinking on ethics in an accessible and immediately relevant way.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2014
First published: 2014
Authors: Cheryl Mattingly
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-28120-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General
LSN: 0-520-28120-9
Barcode: 9780520281202

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