The ethnography of moralities / edited by Signe Howell.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Format/Description:

Book
x, 234 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Ethics -- Cross-cultural studies.
Values -- Cross-cultural studies.

Contents:

Exemplars and rules: aspects of the discourse of moralities in Mongolia / Caroline Humphrey
Dignity and morality in African discourses on personhood / Anita Jacobson-Widding
The morality of locality: on the absolutism of landownership in an English villiage / Nigel Rapport
The moralities of Argentinian football / Eduardo P. Achetti
Double standards / Marilyn Strathern
Inside an 'exhausted community' / Andre Gingrich
The troubles of virtue: values of violence and sufffering in a Mexican context / Marit Melhaus
Eve: ethics and the feminine principle in the second and third chapters of Genesis / T.M.S. Evens

Notes:

"European Association of Social Anthropologists."
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Howell, Signe.
European Association of Social Anthropologists.

ISBN:

0415133580 (cloth)
0415133599 (pbk.)

OCLC:

34746055

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