Engaging evil a moral anthropology
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York ; Oxford
Berghahn Books
2019
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| Schriftenreihe: | Methodology and history in anthropology
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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