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Engaging evil : a moral anthropology / edited by William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 36Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1789202140
  • 9781789202144
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Engaging evilDDC classification:
  • 302/.17 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1406
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas -- Evil and anthropology -- From theodicy to homodicy : evil as an anthropological problem / Thomas Csordas -- On the concept of "evil" in anthropological analyses and political violence / Byron Good -- Evil and suffering -- Speak no evil : inversion and evasion in Indonesia / Andrew Beatty -- Mother evil in Hell Valley : a Creole transvalorization of evil in Trinidad / Roland Littlewood -- Satan on the Old Kent Road : articulations of evil in a pentecostal diaspora / Simon Coleman -- The transformation of evil in Nepal / David Gellner -- Radical evil and the notion of conscience: a Buddhist meditation on Christian soteriology / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Are spirits satanic? : the ambiguity of evil in Niger / Adeline Masqulier -- Evil and violence -- Engaging evil and excess in Palestine/Israel / Julie Peteet -- The violence of evil : a biocultural approach to violence, memory, and pain / Ventura Perez -- The intention of evil : Asram in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Monsters, sadists, and the unspectacular torture experience / Nerina Weiss -- Afterword / David Parkin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas -- Evil and anthropology -- From theodicy to homodicy : evil as an anthropological problem / Thomas Csordas -- On the concept of "evil" in anthropological analyses and political violence / Byron Good -- Evil and suffering -- Speak no evil : inversion and evasion in Indonesia / Andrew Beatty -- Mother evil in Hell Valley : a Creole transvalorization of evil in Trinidad / Roland Littlewood -- Satan on the Old Kent Road : articulations of evil in a pentecostal diaspora / Simon Coleman -- The transformation of evil in Nepal / David Gellner -- Radical evil and the notion of conscience: a Buddhist meditation on Christian soteriology / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Are spirits satanic? : the ambiguity of evil in Niger / Adeline Masqulier -- Evil and violence -- Engaging evil and excess in Palestine/Israel / Julie Peteet -- The violence of evil : a biocultural approach to violence, memory, and pain / Ventura Perez -- The intention of evil : Asram in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Monsters, sadists, and the unspectacular torture experience / Nerina Weiss -- Afterword / David Parkin.

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