The Ethnography of Moralities

The focus for this book (the social construction of morality) was chosen precisely in order to raise a debate around the empirical study of different moral discourses and how these are related to social institucions, to indigenous concepts of human nature (male and female), to cosmologyand to the nature of good and evil. Contents studies of: Caroline Humphrey, Anita Jacobson-Widding, Nigel Rapport, Eduardo P. Archetti, Marilyn Strahern, Andre Gingrich, Marit Melhuus and T.M.S. Evens.