Acknowledgments ................................................ xi
Contributors ................................................. xiii
Introduction .................................................... 1
Michael Lambek
Part One Theoretical frameworks
Toward an Ethics of the Act
Michael Lambek .............................................. 39
Minds, Surfaces, and Reasons in the Anthropology of Ethics
Webb Keane .................................................. 64
From the Ethical to the Themitical (and Back): Groundwork for
an Anthropology of Ethics
James D. Faubion ............................................ 84
Part Two The Ethics of Speaking
Ethics, Language, and Human Sociality
Alan Rumsey ................................................ 105
The Ordinary Ethics of Everyday Talk
Jack Sidnell ............................................... 123
Part Three Responsibility and Agency
Agency and Responsibility: Perhaps You Can Have Too Much
of a Good Thing
James Laidlaw .............................................. 143
Abu Ghraib and the Problem of Evil
Steven C. Caton ............................................ 165
Part Four Punishment and Personal Dignity
The Punishment of Ethical Behavior
Charles Stafford ........................................... 187
Ordinary Ethics and Changing Cosmologies: Exemplification
from North Australia
Francesca Merlan ........................................... 207
Philosophical Comments on Charles Stafford and Francesca
Merlan
Judith Baker ............................................... 225
Part Five Ethics and Formality
Natural Manners: Etiquette, Ethics, and Sincerity in American
Conduct Manuals
Shirley Yeung .............................................. 235
"They Did It like a Song": Ethics, Aesthetics, and Tradition
in Hopi Legal Discourse
Justin B. Richland ......................................... 249
Part Six Ethical Subjects: Character and Practice
People of No Substance: Imposture and the Contingency of
Morality in the Colombian Amazon
Carlos David Londono Sulkin ................................ 273
Ethics Between Public and Private: Sex Workers'
Relationships in London
Sophie Day ................................................. 292
On the Pragmatics of Empathy in the Neurodiversity Movement
Paul Antze ................................................. 310
Being Sadharana: Talking about the Just Business Person in
Sri Lanka
Nireka Weeratunge .......................................... 328
Part Seven Ethical Life: Encounters With History, Religion, and
the Political
Engaging Others: Religious Conviction and Irony in the Holy
Lands
Donna Young ................................................ 351
Between Queer Ethics and Sexual Morality
Naisargi N. Dave ........................................... 368
Engaging the Life of the Other: Love and Everyday Life
Veena Das .................................................. 376
The Ghosts of War and the Ethics of Memory
Heonik Kwon ................................................ 400
Bibliography .................................................. 415
Index ......................................................... 451
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