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Who Are We to Judge?: Two Metalogues on Morality
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0806-0951
2018 (English)In: An Anthropology of the Enlightenment: Moral Social Relations Then and Today / [ed] Huon Wardle; Nigel Rapport, Routledge, 2018, p. 119-132Chapter in book (Refereed)
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The anthropology of morality and the morality of anthropology are separate yet inextricable issues. They can be considered separate in a narrowly defined methodological sense; and they are inextricable in a theoretical and practical sense. It is from a methodological perspective that anthropologists tend to offer their students the rather crude idea that they, as observers, should suspend judgement in order to understand and make sense of other people’s morality. This chapter presents two metalogues on moral anthropology. One is called ‘Three perspectives on morality and the absurdity of their coexistence’; the other, ‘Wobbly universalism’. The first metalogue distinguishes between three types of philosophical-methodological-anthropological perspectives on morality and concludes that the tension between them cannot—and should not—be resolved. The second metalogue argues that relativism, moral and otherwise, is a desert that anthropologists, as well as non-anthropologists in search of open-mindedness, need to cross.

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Routledge, 2018. p. 119-132
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Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs, ISSN 0066-9679 ; 53
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Social Anthropology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-73580DOI: 10.4324/9781003084501-8ISI: 000490124000009ISBN: 9781350086593 (print)ISBN: 9781350086623 (print)ISBN: 9781350086609 (print)ISBN: 9781003084501 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-73580DiVA, id: diva2:1934088
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