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Questions of the right and the good: metaethics and anthropology

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posted on 2023-06-09, 21:55 authored by Matthew Doyle, James McMurrayJames McMurray, Santiago RipollSantiago Ripoll
Questions of the right and the good have been variously recognised by anthropologists as key to understanding human action and behaviour since the early days of the discipline, with the influential recent ‘ethical turn’ perhaps the most obvious example (Mattingly and Throop, 2018). Here, the authors – who together founded the Social Science and Ethics Group at the University of Sussex – reflect on how their own fieldwork led them to engage with metaethics, and how doing so advanced their understanding of their ethnographic material, anthropological theory, and their own professional ethics. The three cases draw on fieldwork in Nicaragua, Bolivia, and China.

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  • Published

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Journal

Sentio

ISSN

2632-2455

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SeNSS

Issue

2

Page range

85-87

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  • Anthropology Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2020-10-20

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-10-20

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2020-10-19

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