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By John Barker

ISBN-10: 0754671852

ISBN-13: 9780754671855

ISBN-10: 1138266213

ISBN-13: 9781138266216

The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and past examines how Melanesians event and take care of ethical dilemmas and demanding situations. Taking Kenelm Burridge’s seminal paintings as their start line, the participants concentration upon public events and kinds of people who exemplify key moral contradictions for individuals of ethical groups. whereas returning to a few classical issues, similar to the jobs of massive males and sorcerers, the publication opens new territory with richly textured ethnographic reviews and theoretical studies that discover the interface among the values linked to indigenous village existence and the moral orientations linked to Christianity, the country, undefined, and different elements of ’modernity'. an immense contribution to the rising box of the anthropology of morality, the quantity contains the most fashionable students operating within the self-discipline at the present time, together with Bruce Knauft, Joel Robbins, F.G. Bailey, Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington.

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