, patriarchal societal systems and, more importantly, that Islamic ethics and Shari’a primarily govern those ethics ( Rahim 2013 ). Through our experience in teaching bioethics to medical residents and medical students, we have noticed that virtually all of
Abdulla Al Sayyari, Fayez Hejaili, and Faissal Shaheen
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 60–75
Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement
Opening Remarks
Carl Plantinga
Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement (hereafter Screen Stories ) provides a framework for an ethics of long-form storytelling on screens. The book conceives of ethics as the “ecology of storytelling.” We likely all agree that the
Jane Stadler
Carl Plantinga's Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement (2018) comes alive with vivid examples that illuminate how emotional engagement with film and television informs ethical life as characterization, narration, and style
Synthetic Beings and Synthespian Ethics
Embodiment Technologies in Science/Fiction
Jane Stadler
screen and off, this article questions what biotechnological ethics means in 2019, the year in which Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) is set. Film and television offer rich cultural imaginings of possible scientific and technological miracles, and
Eschatology, Ethics, and Ēthnos
Ressentiment and Christian Nationalism in the Anthropology of Christianity
Jon Bialecki
This is an article about eschatology, ressentiment , and Christian nationalism. It is also about the unfixed nature of the nationalist imagination, the mutability of the ethical form, and the consequences of the various masks that ethics takes. My
Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Conundrums
Negotiating the Unforeseen Challenges of Ethnographic Fieldwork
Jocelyn D. Avery
-Lughod 1991 ; Narayan 1993 ). One of the foremost considerations in conducting research amongst people with severe intellectual disabilities is ethics, and ethical considerations played a large part in the design and execution of my research, but they also
Love and Violence
Sartre and the Ethics of Need
Katharine Wolfe
Love and Violence: Sartre and the Ethics of Need It could be argued that Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason substitutes Being and Nothingness' s ontological account of interpersonal violence, arising from bad faith, for a
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 37–56
The Ethics of Collective Sponsorship
Virtuous Action and Obligation in Contemporary Tibet
Jane Caple
a religious event or project. Examining emic perspectives on the ethics of kartik in different contexts (from monastic alms collection to community-led projects), I explore when, why, and how it is perceived as good, beneficial, problematic
Afterword
Putting Together the Anthropology of Tax and the Anthropology of Ethics
Soumhya Venkatesan
This afterword combines commentary on the articles that make up this special issue with my own research on small-state, low-tax right-wing activists to bring the anthropology of tax and taxation in conversation with the anthropology of ethics. I
Introduction
Lenience in Systems of Religious Meaning and Practice
Maya Mayblin and Diego Malara
in relation to projects of piety, ethics, and selfhood. Thus, it provides a well-elaborated field of debate to which explorations of lenience may be interposed. Lenience abounds—we only have to look for it. What, we ask, would a diffuse, widespread