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.

Introduction: Reconceptualising the Discipline



PART I: THE CASE AGAINST MORAL ANTHROPOLOGY



Chapter 1. Why I Will Not Make It as a ‘Moral Anthropologist’

Don Kalb



Chapter 2. Steps Away from Moralism

Martin Holbraad



Chapter 3. Not Beyond Good and Evil: The Ethics of Anthropology and the Anthropology of Ethics

Kirsten Bell



Chapter 4. An Obscure Desire for Catastrophe

Rohan Bastin



PART II: MORAL ISSUES IN CONTEXT



Chapter 5. Facts, Values, Morality, and Anthropology

Christopher C. Taylor



Chapter 6. Moral Anthropology, Human Rights and Egalitarianism or The AAA boycott

Marina Gold



Chaprter 7. Anthropology’s Atavistic Turn : An Animist Perspective

Caroline Ifeka



PART III: PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS



Chapter 8. Empathy, As Affective Ethical Technology and Transformative Political Praxis

Elisabeth Kirtsoglou & Dimitrios Theodossopoulos



Chapter 9. The Question of Ethics and Morality

Terry Evens



PART IV: A BROADER VIEW IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT



Chapter 10. The Horizon of Freedom and Ethics of Singularity: The Social Individual and the Necessity of Reloading the Spirit of 1968

Jakob Rigi



Chapter 11. Situating Morality

Jonathan Friedman