Ethnographies of moral reasoning
Subtitle: living paradoxes of a global age
By: edited by Karen Sykes.
Contributors: Sykes, Karen Margaret, 1960-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Ethics -- Congresses; Ethnology -- Congresses; Practical reason -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Table of contents: title: Residence : moral reason in a commonplace : living paradoxes of a global age / Karen Sykes; title: Privatization : jokes, scandal, and absurdity in a time of rapid change? / Katherine Alexander; title: Charity : conversations about need and greed / Soumhya Venkatesan; title: Custom : the limits of reciprocity in village resettlement / Keir Martin; title: Corruption : insights into "combating corruption" in rural development / Alpa Shah; title: Fakes : frauds, value-anxiety and the politics of sincerity / Susanne Brandtstadter; title: Sacra : sorcery rumours about the misuse of ritual as public art / Karen Sykes; title: After words : from ethos to pathos / C.A. Gregory.