Companion to Moral Anthropology

Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Trained as a physician in internal medicine and public health, Fassin dedicated his early research to medical anthropology, before developing a domain he terms political and moral anthropology. He is the Director-founder of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Social Issues (IRIS, Paris), former  Chair of the Social Science and Humanities Committee of the French National Research Agency, and former Vice-President of Médecins sans Frontières.

• Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Toward a Critical Moral Anthropology 1Didier FassinPart I Legacies 191 Durkheim and the Moral Fact 21Bruno Karsenti2 Weber and Practical Ethics 37Isabelle Kalinowski3 E. P. Thompson and Moral Economies 49Marc Edelman4 Foucault and the Genealogy of Ethics 67James D . Faubion5 Relativism and Universalism 85Richard A. Shweder6 Anthropology and Ethics 103Carolyn Fluehr-LobbanPart II Approaches 1157 Cultural Values 117Joel Robbins8 Ordinary Ethics 133Veena Das9 Moral Sentiments 150C . Jason Throop10 Moral Reasoning 169Karen M . Sykes11 Virtue 186Thomas Widlok12 Narratives 204Jarrett ZigonPart III Localities 22113 Ethics and Piety 223Saba Mahmood14 Care and Disregard 242João Biehl15 Mourning 264Everett Yuehong Zhang16 Poverty 283Harri Englund17 Inequality 302Caroline Humphrey18 Sexuality 320Stacy Leigh PiggPart IV Worlds 33919 Religion and Morality 341Michael Lambek20 Charity 359Jonathan Benthall21 Medicine 376Adriana Petryna22 Science 395Michael M . J . Fischer23 Finance 413Karen Ho24 Law 432Carol J. GreenhousePart V Politics 44925 Humanitarianism 451Peter Redfield26 Human Rights 468Mark Goodale27 War 482Catherine Lutz and Kathleen Millar28 Violence 500Alexander Hinton29 Punishment 519Roger Lancaster30 Borders 540Josiah M. Heyman and John SymonsPart VI Dialogues 55931 Moral Philosophy 561Kwame Anthony Appiah32 Moral Psychology 578James Dungan and Liane Young33 Neuroethics 595Massimo Reichlin34 Evolutionary and Cognitive Anthropology 611Nicolas Baumard and Dan SperberIndex of Names 628Subject Index 641

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