Engaging evil a moral anthropology
Introduction / William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas -- Evil and anthropology -- From theodicy to homodicy : evil as an anthropological problem / Thomas Csordas -- On the concept of "evil" in anthropological analyses and political violence / Byron Good -- Evil and suffering -- Speak no evil...
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Sprache: | eng |
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New York ; Oxford
Berghahn Books
2019
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Schriftenreihe: | Methodology and history in anthropology
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Zusammenfassung: | Introduction / William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas -- Evil and anthropology -- From theodicy to homodicy : evil as an anthropological problem / Thomas Csordas -- On the concept of "evil" in anthropological analyses and political violence / Byron Good -- Evil and suffering -- Speak no evil : inversion and evasion in Indonesia / Andrew Beatty -- Mother evil in Hell Valley : a Creole transvalorization of evil in Trinidad / Roland Littlewood -- Satan on the Old Kent Road : articulations of evil in a pentecostal diaspora / Simon Coleman -- The transformation of evil in Nepal / David Gellner -- Radical evil and the notion of conscience: a Buddhist meditation on Christian soteriology / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Are spirits satanic? : the ambiguity of evil in Niger / Adeline Masqulier -- Evil and violence -- Engaging evil and excess in Palestine/Israel / Julie Peteet -- The violence of evil : a biocultural approach to violence, memory, and pain / Ventura Perez -- The intention of evil : Asram in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Monsters, sadists, and the unspectacular torture experience / Nerina Weiss -- Afterword / David Parkin |
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Beschreibung: | vi, 313 Seiten Illustration, Diagramm |
ISBN: | 9781789202137 978-1-78920-213-7 1789202132 1-78920-213-2 |