| Title: | Extreme Poverty and Existential Obligations: Beyond Morality in the Anthropology of Africa? |
| Author: | Englund, Harri |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Periodical: | Social Analysis (ISSN 0155-977X) |
| Volume: | 52 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 33-50 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Malawi |
| Subject: | poverty |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2008.520302 |
| Abstract: | The suggestion that the anthropological study of morality is theoretically undeveloped carries with it the risk of caricaturing ideas of moral obligation in mid-twentieth-century social anthropology. The need for recovering aspects of these ideas is demonstrated by the tendency of moral philosophers to reduce the issue of world poverty to a question of ethical choices and dilemmas. |
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