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Questions of the right and the good: metaethics and anthropology

Questions of the right and the good: metaethics and anthropology
Questions of the right and the good: metaethics and anthropology
Questions of the right and the good have been variously recognised by anthropologists as key to understanding human action and behaviour since the early days of the discipline, with the influential recent ‘ethical turn’ perhaps the most obvious example (Mattingly and Throop, 2018). Here, the authors – who together founded the Social Science and Ethics Group at the University of Sussex – reflect on how their own fieldwork led them to engage with metaethics, and how doing so advanced their understanding of their ethnographic material, anthropological theory, and their own professional ethics. The three cases draw on fieldwork in Nicaragua, Bolivia, and China.
2632-2455
85-87
Doyle, Matthew
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McMurray, James
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Ripoll, Santiago
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Doyle, Matthew
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McMurray, James
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Ripoll, Santiago
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Doyle, Matthew, McMurray, James and Ripoll, Santiago (2020) Questions of the right and the good: metaethics and anthropology. Sentio, 85-87.

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Questions of the right and the good have been variously recognised by anthropologists as key to understanding human action and behaviour since the early days of the discipline, with the influential recent ‘ethical turn’ perhaps the most obvious example (Mattingly and Throop, 2018). Here, the authors – who together founded the Social Science and Ethics Group at the University of Sussex – reflect on how their own fieldwork led them to engage with metaethics, and how doing so advanced their understanding of their ethnographic material, anthropological theory, and their own professional ethics. The three cases draw on fieldwork in Nicaragua, Bolivia, and China.

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Published date: 20 October 2020

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Local EPrints ID: 446879
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/446879
ISSN: 2632-2455
PURE UUID: 34d06284-a26e-4b8a-9d3b-a86990c36505

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Date deposited: 25 Feb 2021 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 10:58

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Author: Matthew Doyle
Author: James McMurray
Author: Santiago Ripoll

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