Moral Anthropology

Bruce Kapferer is Honorary Professor University College London and Professor Emeritus, University of Bergen, where he is Director of the Egalitarianism Project supported by an ERC Advanced Grant. Has published widely on South Asia, Africa and Australia where he has done extensive anthropological fieldwork.

“The thirteen texts cobbled together in this light book (physically, not intellectually) are fairly short but no less penetrating in their analytical insight for that. They hit hard at the discomforts and inner tensions of contemporary anthropological theory and practice, making Moral Anthropology: A Critique mandatory reading for anyone puzzled by the buzzing if problematic area of inquiry that is the anthropology of moralities.” • Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society

• Introduction: Reconceptualising the DisciplinePART I: THE CASE AGAINST MORAL ANTHROPOLOGYChapter 1. Why I Will Not Make It as a ‘Moral Anthropologist’Don KalbChapter 2. Steps Away from MoralismMartin HolbraadChapter 3. Not Beyond Good and Evil: The Ethics of Anthropology and the Anthropology of EthicsKirsten BellChapter 4. An Obscure Desire for CatastropheRohan BastinPART II: MORAL ISSUES IN CONTEXTChapter 5. Facts, Values, Morality, and AnthropologyChristopher C. TaylorChapter 6. Moral Anthropology, Human Rights and Egalitarianism or The AAA boycottMarina GoldChaprter 7. Anthropology’s Atavistic Turn : An Animist PerspectiveCaroline IfekaPART III: PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONSChapter 8. Empathy, As Affective Ethical Technology and Transformative Political PraxisElisabeth Kirtsoglou & Dimitrios TheodossopoulosChapter 9. The Question of Ethics and MoralityTerry Evens PART IV: A BROADER VIEW IN HISTORICAL CONTEXTChapter 10. The Horizon of Freedom and Ethics of Singularity: The Social Individual and the Necessity of Reloading the Spirit of 1968Jakob RigiChapter 11. Situating MoralityJonathan Friedman