Here is a thought: if there is such a thing as ethics, it must be universal. 1 If we are to unfold
this thought in more detail, it might sound something like this: if there is something, ethics …

In the winter of 2019, the appearance of the SARS CoV-2 virus, which led to the COVID-19
pandemic, changed a small part of the biological habitat for human life on Earth, resulting in …

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender
conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and …

In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature
arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion …

One way to think of the issue of ethics is with the help of a vocabulary of rules and their
infringement–assuming that the normative rules of our society give us the guidelines of how …

In May 2001, in that year's Malinowski Memorial Lecture at the London School of
Economics, I said that there did not yet exist an anthropology of ethics (Laidlaw 2002). I tried …

An anthropology of moralities would do well to move beyond traditional moral concepts in
the realization that most moral lives and ethical projects—what we might call moral …

Many contexts shape and limit moral thinking in philosophy and life. Human conditions of
vulnerability and interdependency, of limited awareness and control, of imperfect insight into …

Naturalistic, normative, and ethnographic approaches to ethical life seem to describe very
different worlds. Focusing on ordinary social interactions and ideologies surrounding them …

There has been a recent surge of interest in studying radical moral change. A number of
philosophers have turned to Thomas Kuhn's model of scientific revolutions as a framework …