Engaging evil : a moral anthropology /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2019.
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| Series: | Methodology and history in anthropology ;
v. 36. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction ; William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas PART I: EVIL AND ANTHROPOLOGY Chapter 1. From Theodicy to Homodicy: Evil as an Anthropological Problem; Thomas Csordas Chapter 2. On the Concept of "Evil" in Anthropological Analyses and Political Violence; Byron Good PART II: EVIL AND SUFFERING Chapter 3. Speak No Evil: Inversion and Evasion in Indonesia; Andrew Beatty Chapter 4. Mother Evil in Hell Valley: A Creole Transvalorisation of Evil in Trinidad; Roland Littlewood Chapter 5. Satan on the Old Kent Road: Articulations of Evil in a Pentecostal Diaspora; Simon Coleman Chapter 6. The Transformation of Evil in Nepal; David Gellner Chapter 7. Radical Evil and the Notion of Conscience: A Buddhist Meditation on Christian Soteriology; Gananath Obeyesekere Chapter 8. Are Spirits Satanic? The Ambiguity of Evil in Niger; Adeline Masqulier PART III: EVIL AND VIOLENCE Chapter 9. Engaging Evil and Excess in Palestine / Israel; Julie Peteet Chapter 10. The Violence of Evil: A Biocultural Approach to Violence, Memory, and Pain; Ventura Perez Chapter 11. The Intention of Evil: Asram in Asante; William C. Olsen Chapter 12. Monsters, Sadists, and the Unspectacular Torture Experience; Nerina Weiss Afterword ; David Parkin ;