Anthropologists have sustained a varied and active engagement with ethics throughout the
field's history. In light of this long-standing engagement, what marks the distinctiveness of …

Twenty-four years ago, Ethos published a special issue devoted to the topic of morality. The
volume, guest edited by Fiske and Mason (1990a), included contributions by a number of …

In this article, I seek to examine how local moral concerns are revealed, contested, and
negotiated in instances wherein individuals take up ethically imbued and viscerally laden …

Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren—self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation—as
the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary China, however, the nation seems …

Over the last two decades, Eastern Europe has experienced extensive changes in geo-
political relocations and relations. Attempts to establish liberal democracies, re-orientations …

Remittances have moral dimensions that, albeit implicitly addressed in migration literature,
have not yet been the focus of explicit attention and analysis by social scientists. Building on …

Wie erlernen Kinder Emotionen und welche Rolle spielt dabei ihre soziale und kulturelle
Umwelt? Gabriel Scheidecker untersucht die-bisher primär in westlichen Kontexten …

It is possible to argue that the anthropology of ethics has always been part of the discipline
but also that it is a radically new and transformative venture. This entry explains why both …

This article proposes an analysis of a ritual glitch and resulting “misfire” from the standpoint
of a phenomenologically informed anthropology of human interaction. Through articulating a …

When affective and emotional dynamics relate to the establishment of relatively stable
evaluative regimes of meaning, which govern, structure, and regulate how people make …