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Periodical article Periodical article
Title:Extreme Poverty and Existential Obligations: Beyond Morality in the Anthropology of Africa?
Author:Englund, HarriISNI
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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