Engaging Evil by William C Olsen
Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.-
Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology
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The Politics of Egalitarianism
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Religion in English Everyday Life
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Holistic Anthropology
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Taboo, Truth and Religion
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Categories of Self
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Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization
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Categories and Classifications
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Marcel Mauss
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Hunting the Gatherers
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Expeditionary Anthropology
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Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
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Anyone
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Regimes of Ignorance
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Who are 'We'?
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Search After Method
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Chicanery
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Navigating Terrains of War
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A History of Oxford Anthropology
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Difficult Folk?
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Ways of Knowing
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Up Close and Personal
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An Ethnographic Chiefdom
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The Social Origins of Thought
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The Problem of Context
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Radcliffe-Brown
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‘I am Here’, Abraham Said
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The Spirit of Matter
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The Ethics of Knowledge Creation
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Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent
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Total Atheism
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Anthropologists in a Wider World
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Correcting the Record
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The Scope of Anthropology
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An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology
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The Life of Property
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Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa
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Returning Life
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Two Against the Tide
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Medicinal Rule
"The various contributions offer a rich and highly variegated overview of how anthropologists have dealt with `evil' and thus give a good idea of the baffling variety hiding behind this notion" Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam
William C. Olsen is the Principal Social Sciences Bibliographer and is adjunct faculty in Anthropology and African Studies at Georgetown University.
Thomas Csordas is Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781789202137 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789202132 |
| Title | Engaging Evil |
| Author | William C Olsen |
| Series | Methodology And History In Anthropology Ser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2019-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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