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Ordinary Ethics - Anthropology, Language, and Action (Paperback)
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What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it
visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform
anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought,
speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt
to address these questions. It is a common experience of most
ethnographers that the people we encounter are trying to do what
they consider right or good, are being evaluated according to
criteria of what is right and good, or are in some debate about
what constitutes the human good. Yet anthropological theory has
tended to overlook all this in favor of analyses that emphasize
structure, power, and interest. Bringing together ethnographic
exposition with philosophical concepts and arguments and
effectively transcending subdisciplinary boundaries between
cultural and linguistic anthropology, the essays collected in this
volume explore the ethical entailments of speech and action and
demonstrate the centrality of ethical practice, judgment,
reasoning, responsibility, cultivation, commitment, and questioning
in social life. Rather than focus on codes of conduct or hot-button
issues, they make the cumulative argument that ethics is profoundly
"ordinary," pervasive-and possibly even intrinsic to speech and
action. In addition to deepening our understanding of ethics, the
volume makes an incisive and necessary intervention in
anthropological theory, recasting discussion in ways that force us
to rethink such concepts as power, agency, and relativism.
Individual chapters consider the place of ethics with respect to
conversation and interaction; judgment and responsibility;
formality, etiquette, performance, ritual, and law; character and
empathy; social boundaries and exclusions; socialization and
punishment; and commemoration, history, and living together in
peace and war. Together they offer a comprehensive portrait of an
approach that is now critical for advancing anthropological theory
and ethnographic description, as well as fruitful conversation with
philosophy.
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