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  • Animals, Robots, Gods

    Adventures in the Moral Imagination

    by Webb Keane ...
    A mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhumanMoral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Animals, Robots, Gods provides a bold new vision of ethics defined less by the individual mind or society and more by our interactions with those around us, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods ... Read more

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  • Christian Moderns

    Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter

    by Webb Keane ...
    Series Book 1 - The Anthropology of Christianity
    Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East Indies to post-independence Indonesia, among Calvinist missionaries, their converts, and those who ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences

    Positivism and Its Epistemological Others

    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others, its influence is significantly diminished. The essays in this collection investigate its mutations in form and degree ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The Cunning of Recognition

    Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism

    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with their colonizers but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of authentic ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Four Lectures on Ethics

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Series series Masterclass
    Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field—Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane—to discuss, via lectures and responses, important topics facing anthropological ethics and the theoretical debates that ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Ethical Life

    Its Natural and Social Histories

    by Webb Keane ...
    The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is it a universal human trait? Or is it a product of one's cultural and historical context? Webb Keane offers a new approach to the empirical study ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Animals, Robots, Gods

    Adventures in the Moral Imagination

    by Webb Keane ...
    Narrated by Mark Arnold ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 44 min

    This audiobook narrated by Mark Arnold offers a mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhumanMoral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Animals, Robots, Gods provides a bold new vision of ethics defined less by the individual mind or society and more by our interactions with those around ... Read more

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