Ethnographies of Moral Reasoning

1. An Introduction to the Ethnography of Moral Reasoning

1. Residence: Moral Reasoning in a Common Place—Paradoxes of a Global Age
Karen Sykes

2. Valuers and Value: Words on an Uncommon Ground

2. Privatization: Jokes, Scandal, and Absurdity in a Time of Rapid Change
Catherine Alexander

3. Charity: Conversations about Need and Greed
Soumhya Venkatesan

3. Contestations of the Standards of Value

4. Custom: The Limits of Reciprocity in Village Resettlement
Keir Martin

5. Corruption: Insights into Combating Corruption in Rural Development
Alpa Shah

4. Subaltern Reason, Moral Ambiguity, and Paradoxes of Value

6. Fakes: Fraud, Value-Anxiety, and the Politics of Sincerity
Susanne Brandtstädter

7. Sacra: Rumors about the Moral Force of Ritual Objects as Public Art
Karen Sykes

Part 5. After Words

8. After Words: From Ethos to Pathos
C. A. Gregory

Keywords: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Geology, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Comparative Religion