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 …

Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with
definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows …

" A War on People takes up two interrelated concerns increasingly of import to political
anthropologists and theorists. The first is the seemingly widespread lack of motivation for …

A key problem for critical theory is how to problematize the very concepts that undergird its
own frameworks once they have become canonical. The more that certain constructs come …

This article deals with the German concept of Stimmung, which does not allow a translation
into the English notion of “affective mood,” but rather is simultaneously an internal and …

As the Czech phenomenologist Jan Patočka poetically phrased it, human beings are
“beings of the far reaches.” Our human condition is, in other words, conditioned by the …

The books in this series explore the relations, in human social and cultural life, between
perception, creativity and skill. Their common aim is to move beyond established …

This chapter represents an attempt at defining, in the form of a ten-thesis manifesto, what
empathy might and might not be and its role in experiencing others, including “radical …

In this article, I engage the recent debate on transcendence/the transcendental within the
anthropology of ethics with the claim that 'How is it between us?'is the most fundamental of …

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 …