Pina-Cabral, Joao (2020) When ethics runs counter to morals. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 8 (2). pp. 522-529. ISSN 2575-1433. (doi:10.1086/708679) (KAR id:80657)
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Abstract
In the present conjuncture, Brazilian social anthropologists are facing a major challenge to their work. I suggest that this happens because of anthropology’s central dependence on the ethnographic method. The ethnographer’s direct contact with the people they study gives rise to an ethical response that moves the ethnographer beyond abstract moral principles. But, in the world of Jair Bolsonaro or Donald Trump, ethics counters morals: the objectivized, legalistic formulas favored by these autocratic ideologues (supposedly representing “tradition” and “identity”) turn out not to correspond to the actual conditions that face the persons that anthropologists meet in the field, who experience oppression and suffering in their lives.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1086/708679 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Brazil, conjunction, ethnographic gesture, de-ethnocentrification, ethics, morals, conservativism, progressivism, pharysism |
Subjects: |
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation |
Depositing User: | Joao de Pina Cabral |
Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2020 13:56 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 12:46 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/80657 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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