TY - BOOK ID - 147680145 TI - Engaging evil : a moral anthropology AU - Olsen, William C. AU - Csordas, Thomas J. PY - 2019 SN - 1789202140 1789202132 1800736401 PB - New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, DB - UniCat KW - Good and evil KW - Social aspects. KW - academic debate. KW - academic studies. KW - african kingship. KW - alterity. KW - anthropology history. KW - anthropology. KW - durkheim. KW - ethics of knowledge. KW - history reference. KW - kilimanjaro. KW - kingship. KW - methods of anthropology. KW - moral. KW - new developments. KW - new methods. KW - non knowledge. KW - social. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147680145 AB - Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence. ER -