Engaging Evil: A Moral Anthropology
Introduction -- William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas -- PART I: EVIL AND ANTHROPOLOGY -- Chapter 1. From Theodicy to Homodicy: Evil as an Anthropological Problem -- Thomas Csordas -- Chapter 2. On the Concept of “Evil” in Anthropological Analyses and Political Violence -- Byron Good -- PART II: EVIL...
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New York, NY
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2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Edition: | 1st edition |
| Series/Journal: | Methodology & History in Anthropology
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| Summary: | Introduction -- William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas -- PART I: EVIL AND ANTHROPOLOGY -- Chapter 1. From Theodicy to Homodicy: Evil as an Anthropological Problem -- Thomas Csordas -- Chapter 2. On the Concept of “Evil” in Anthropological Analyses and Political Violence -- Byron Good -- PART II: EVIL AND SUFFERING -- Chapter 3. Speak No Evil: Inversion and Evasion in Indonesia -- Andrew Beatty -- Chapter 4. Mother Evil in Hell Valley: A Creole Transvalorisation of Evil in Trinidad -- Roland Littlewood -- Chapter 5. Satan on the Old Kent Road: Articulations of Evil in a Pentecostal Diaspora -- Simon Coleman -- Chapter 6. The Transformation of Evil in Nepal -- David Gellner -- Chapter 7. Radical Evil and the Notion of Conscience: A Buddhist Meditation on Christian Soteriology -- Gananath Obeyesekere -- Chapter 8. Are Spirits Satanic? The Ambiguity of Evil in Niger -- Adeline Masqulier -- PART III: EVIL AND VIOLENCE -- Chapter 9. Engaging Evil and Excess in Palestine / Israel -- Julie Peteet -- Chapter 10. The Violence of Evil: A Biocultural Approach to Violence, Memory, and Pain -- Ventura Perez -- Chapter 11. The Intention of Evil: Asram in Asante -- William C. Olsen -- Chapter 12. Monsters, Sadists, and the Unspectacular Torture Experience -- Nerina Weiss -- Afterword -- David Parkin -- 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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| Item Description: | Zielgruppe - Audience: Professional and scholarly |
| ISBN: | 1789202140 |