The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics

James Laidlaw is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. He is the author of The Archetypal Actions of Ritual (with Caroline Humphrey, 1994), Riches and Renunciation (1995), and The Subject of Virtue (2014), and the editor of The Essential Edmund Leach (with Stephen Hugh-Jones, 2000), Ritual and Memory (with Harvey Whitehouse, 2004), Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science (with Harvey Whitehouse, 2007), and Recovering the Human Subject (with Barbara Bodenhorn and Martin Holbraad, 2018).

1. Introduction James Laidlaw; Part I. Intellectual Sources and Disciplinary Engagements: 2. Moral and political philosophy Hallvard Lillehammer; 3. Virtue ethics Jonathan Mair; 4. Agonistic pluralists James Laidlaw and Patrick McKearney; 5. The two faces of Michel Foucault Paolo Heywood; 6. Phenomenology Samuel Williams; 7. Cognitive science Harry Walker and Natalia Buitron; 8. Theology Michael Banner; Part II. Aspects of Ethical Agency: 9. Making the ethical in social interaction Webb Keane and Michael Lempert; 10. Freedom Soumhya Venkatesan; 11. Responsibility Catherine Trundle; 12. Emotion and affect Teresa Kuan; 13. Happiness and wellbeing Edward F. Fischer and Sam Victor; 14. Suffering and sympathy Abby Mack and C. Jason Throop; 15. Ambiguity and difference Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller; Part III. Media and Modes of Ethical Practice: 16. Self-cultivation Joanna Cook; 17. Exemplars Nicholas H. A. Evans; 18. Ritual Letha Victor and Michael Lambek; 19. Values Julian Sommerschuh and Joel Robbins; 20. Rules Morgan Clarke; 21. On ethical pedagogies James D. Faubion; Part IV. Intimate and Everyday Life: 22. Care Cheryl Mattingly and Patrick McKearney; 23. Kinship and love Perveez Mody; 24. Cooperation and punishment Anni Kajanus and Charles Stafford; 25. Favours David Henig and Nicolette Makovicky; 26. The inimical gaze Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin; 27. Animals Rosie Jones-McVey; 28. God T. M. Luhrmann; Part V. Institutional Life: 29. Modern capitalism and ethical plurality Robert W. Hefner; 30. The ethics of trade and commerce Paul Anderson and Magnus Marsden; 31. Activism and political organization Sian Lazar; 32. Philanthropy China Scherz; 33. Science Matei Candea; 34. Communist morality under socialism Yunxiang Yan.