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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Anthropology of ethics"”.
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Reasonable Creates: British Equestrianism and Epistemological Responsibility in Late Modernity
… horses well. This ethical imperative emerges out of a changing equestrian context. A broadening socio-economic demographic of equestrian participants, with an increasingly female population, moves equestrianism further away from its military and elitist heritage, and towards more 'one-horse …
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The Root of Respect: Perspectives on Ethical Life on Dobu, Papua New Guinea
This thesis is an analysis of the concept of amayaba (“respect”) as it is understood by Dobu Islanders of the Massim Region of Papua New Guinea. I argue that the meaning of amayaba is integrally tied to the concepts alamai’ita (“self-control”), paisewa (“work”), and oboboma (“generosity”), as well …
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Cultivation and Conflict: Buddhist-Derived Meditation and Ethical Complexity among Israeli Jews
… currently being employed by a striking variety of Israelis. This dissertation relies on over 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Israel and the occupied West Bank. It examines the ways in which orthodox Jews on the one hand, and non-observant Jewish activists for solidarity with Palestinians …
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‘Action through non-action’: self-transformation and social transformation at the PRC grassroots
This dissertation is situated at the intersection of the anthropology of ethics and politics in the context of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). I ground my analysis in a long-standing ethical-political tradition, dating from the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), which sees societal …
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Wealth and ethics in Pindar
… epinicians, using an approach developed with the anthropology of ethics and in critical dialogue with socioeconomic historicism. It aims to restore the place of divinity in Pindar’s valuation of wealth and provide a productive framework for interpreting apparent inconsistencies in Pindar’s gnomic …
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Morality In Action: Risking Death And Caring For Life In American Food Allergy Worlds
This dissertation investigates the social effects of the food allergy "epidemic" in the contemporary United States, a state of affairs which activists publicize in highly moral terms, based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted from 2013 to 2016. I argue that the moral framing of this …
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The Stocksman's Shadow: An Ethnography of Ethics and Symbolism in the Yorkshire Dales
… wily and elusive creatures. And knowing the ways of these wily creatures, well now, that too is elusive and, as we shall soon learn, anything but straightforward. This dissertation is about hill farming in the Yorkshire Dales (shorthand, the Dales). It is, therefore, about those who most certainly …
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Immoral Economy: Negative Ethics and Everyday Economic Life in the Southern Peruvian Andes
This dissertation explores the perverse vitality of negative ethics—that is, how concerns about immorality animate everyday economic life in rural Andean Peru. Through a consideration of issues such as land inheritance, borrowing money, gift exchange, wealth inequality, and cash cropping, I argue …
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An ethics of coherence: self, knowledge, and religious authority among women Islamic scholars in Leicester, UK
… female religious scholars (‘alimat sing. ‘alima) of Gujarati-Indian origin in the British Midlands city of Leicester. It investigates their efforts to live a good Muslim life and to guide others in doing so. These women studied a multi-year Islamic syllabus at local Deobandi seminaries for women …
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The making of art: sculptors, artisans, and artists in the Apuan Alps
… in the Apuan Alps and its relation to claims of artistic value. For centuries, this Italian district has specialized in extracting, marketing, and processing marble into luxury commodities. Ahead of many other parts of this economy (including design and architecture), art manufacturing has …
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"We don't know what we're saying": Politics and subjects among the ultras of Centro Storico Lebowski football club in Florence, Italy
This dissertation offers an ethnographic account of Centro Storico Lebowski (CSL), a semi-professional football club in Florence, Italy, and of the community that supports and manages it. I argue that CSL showcases the fraught and sometimes ambiguous labour of ‘refiguration’ of pre-existent …
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Transforming the Self through Benefiting Others: Fo Guang Shan Humanistic Buddhism in the People's Republic of China
This thesis presents an ethnographic study of Fo Guang Shan (FGS, Buddha’s Light Mountain, 佛光山), a Taiwan-based Han-Chinese Buddhist movement that is socially engaged and highly active on a global scale. The particular focus is the development of FGS in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It aims …
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'We Will Remember; We Will Not Stay Put': Ethics and Politics after the Sewol Ferry Disaster in South Korea
The sinking of the Korean ferry, MV Sewol, on April 16th, 2014, claimed 304 lives, 250 of whom were high school students on a fieldtrip to Jeju Island. The Disaster, broadcasted real-time, incited a widespread movement founded on condolence for the victims, and a collective determination that …
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The Ethics of Knowing: Epistemic Virtue at an Ex-literalist Church in Nashville
… the intrinsic connection between knowledge and ethics. It is an ethnography about a community of Christians who have taken it upon themselves to change their way of knowing the Bible in view of becoming better moral subjects. Founded in 1929 as a house church in Nashville, Tennessee, today Heart …
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The capital of carnival: Alibabá carnival music and dance in Santo Domingo as social enterprise and performance complex
… groups known as “Alibabá” parade in the streets of Santo Domingo, giving a spectacular performance with equal elements of sonic and visual display. Unlike other carnival groups in the capital, Alibabá groups perform unison dance routines while dressed in stylized Middle-Eastern inspired costumes …