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A reader’s guide to the

anthropology of ethics and morality
– Part I
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i.html/)
By C. Jason Throop (http://somatosphere.net/author/c-jason-throop/)

This article is part of the series: A Reader's Guide to the Anthropology of Ethics and
Morality (http://somatosphere.net/series/a-readers-guide-to-the-anthropology-of-
ethics-and-morality/)

Editor’s note: We asked several scholars which readings they would recommend
to students or colleagues interested in familiarizing themselves with the
anthropology of ethics and morality. This is response we received from C. Jason
Throop (http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/faculty/c-jason-throop), Professor of
Anthropology at UCLA. Reading lists from other scholars will be forthcoming in
this series.

Directly tied to my efforts to analyze moral aspects of pain and suffering in

the context of my ethnographic work in Yap, in the fall of 2007, I decided to
offer a new graduate seminar at UCLA entitled “Morality, Virtue, and
Subjectivity.” My goal at the time was to put together a seminar that would
explore the ways that philosophical and anthropological literatures on
morality, virtue, and subjectivity might critically inform one another. There
were two major problems I faced, however, when it came to selecting relevant
readings. First, on the philosophical side, there was the problem of selecting
which readings, out of a vast existing literature, would be deemed both
accessible and anthropologically relevant to the students. Assuming that most
students had very little exposure to longstanding debates between virtue
ethical, consequentialist/utilitarian, and deontological traditions in
philosophy, I had to find a way to cover some of the basics without
overwhelming them. Second, on the anthropological side, I struggled with
the fact that there were very few examples of anthropologists directly
engaging the topic in either an analytically sophisticated or an explicitly
philosophically informed way. The result was a syllabus that covered much
more philosophical than anthropological ground, with the anthropological
contributions more often than not merely hinting at, rather than explicitly
engaging in, a discussion of the key philosophical issues. In the end, this
required that I do a lot of lecturing to make sure the connections that I was
seeing between the two literatures were indeed also legible to the students,
something that took important time away from our group discussions.

When offering the seminar again in subsequent years (2011, 2014, and again
this coming Fall 2016) things had changed drastically, however. Whereas I
only had a handful of explicitly ethically oriented ethnographic examples to
draw from in the inaugural version of the seminar, in the wake of what was
being increasingly recognized as a so-called ethical-turn in the discipline there
was not only a remarkable increase in detailed ethnographic work explicitly
focused on the topic but also the advent of a number of truly excellent efforts
to define and historically situate the field. In designing the most recent
version of the syllabus this past summer the problem that I now faced was
thus deciding which, of the abundance of anthropological work on
ethics/morality, I should use. While I am not completely satisfied with the
result, I have chosen to drastically cut down on the philosophical readings
and to add an extended (but by no means comprehensive) “Suggested
Readings” section.

Drawing from my experience teaching four separate iterations of what is now

simply termed “The Anthropology of Moralities” seminar, I include below
what I deem to be some of the core anthropological contributions to the
burgeoning literature on ethics and morality in the discipline. I have
organized the bibliography according to three rough historical phases, two of
which provide the foundations upon which the so-called ethical-turn was
built. Within the ethical-turn proper, I have further tried to delineate some of
the emerging and at times competing thematic/theoretical orientations
within it. A careful working through of the works cited below should well
orient anyone who may be interested in learning more about contemporary
anthropological engagements with ethics/morality.

I. Early Contributions

Durkheim, Emile. 1961. Moral Education (https://books.google.com/books?

id=3l9o33gYSxQC&lpg=PA290&ots=rPOzVsd-
PV&dq=Moral%20Education.%20Everett%20K.%20Wilson%20and%20Herman%
Everett K. Wilson and Herman Schnurer (trans). New York: The Free Press of
Glencoe, Inc.

Durkheim, Emile. 1974. “The Determination of Moral Facts,” “Individual

Reason and Moral Reality,” “The Feeling of Obligation: The Sacred Character
of Morality,” “The Subjective Representation of Morality.” In Sociology and
Philosophy (https://books.google.com/books?
id=oCBNzbCG2N0C&lpg=PP1&dq=Sociology%20and%20Philosophy%20durk
New York: Free Press.

Durkheim, Emile. 1979. Essays on Morals and Education

(https://books.google.com/books?
id=qOgFBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Essays%20on%20Morals%20and%20Educ
Edited with an introduction by W.S.F. Pickering. H.L. Sutcliffe, trans.
London: Routledge.

Durkheim, Emile. 1993. Ethics and the Sociology of Morals

(https://books.google.com/books?
id=UVG_bo8Ra6sC&lpg=PA1&dq=Ethics%20and%20the%20Sociology%20of%
Translated and with an introduction by Robert T. Hall. New York:
Prometheus.

Durkheim, Emile. 1995. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

(https://books.google.com/books?
id=3j5tyWkEZSYC&lpg=PP1&dq=The%20Elementary%20Forms%20of%20Rel
Translated with an introduction by Karen Fields. New York: Free Press.
Edel, May and Abraham Edel. 1959. Anthropology and Ethics: The Quest for
Moral Understanding (https://books.google.com/books?
id=8xbDmogYf3cC&lpg=PP1&dq=Anthropology%20and%20Ethics%3A%20Th
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

Fortes, Meyers. 1987. Religion, Morality, and the Person: Essays on Tallensi
Religion (https://books.google.com/books?
id=uJg4AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Religion%2C%20Morality%2C%20and%20t
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ladd, John. 1957. The Structure of a Moral Code: A Philosophical Analysis of

Ethical Discourse Applied to the Ethics of the Navajo Indians
(https://books.google.com/books?
id=y_pKAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=The%20Structure%20of%20a%20Moral%2
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Linton, Ralph. 1952. “Universal Ethical Principles: An Anthropological Point

of View.” In R. N. Anshen (ed.), Moral Principles of Action: Man’s Ethical
Imperative
(https://books.google.com/books/about/Moral_Principles_of_Action.html?
id=-QAtAAAAMAAJ). New York: Harper.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1926. Crime and Custom in Savage Society

(https://books.google.com/books?id=U5-
ARmWAn8cC&lpg=PP1&dq=Crime%20and%20Custom%20in%20Savage%20S
London: Paul Kegan.

Nadel, S. F. 1964. “Morality and Language among the Nupe.” In D. Hymes

(ed.), Language in Culture and Society: A Reader in Linguistics and
Anthropology (https://books.google.com/books?
id=MA1pMQEACAAJ&dq=isbn:006356226X&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYu
New York: Harper and Row. Pp. 264-66.

Read, K.E. 1955. “Morality and the Concept of Person Among the Gahuku-
Gama (https://www.jstor.org/stable/40328996).” Oceania 25(4): 233-82.

Westermarck, Edward. 1917. The Origins and Development of the Moral Ideas
(https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Origin_and_Development_of_th
id=txktAAAAMAAJ). New York: Macmillan.
II. Some Pathways Toward a Turn (Morality and Ethics in 1980’s & 1990’s)

Asad, Talal. 1993. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in

Christianity and Islam
(https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/genealogies-religion). Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press.

Brodwin, Paul. 1996. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing
Power
(https://books.google.com/books/about/Medicine_and_Morality_in_Haiti.htm
id=aYw3u08k2GsC). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Briggs, Jean. 1998. Inuit Morality Play

(http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300080643/inuit-morality-play).
Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Csordas, Thomas. 1994. The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of

Charismatic Healing (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?
isbn=9780520208841). California: University of California Press.

D’Andrade, Roy. 1995. “Moral Models in Anthropology

(https://www.jstor.org/stable/2744050).” Current Anthropology 16(3): 399-
408.

Fiske, Alan and Kathyn Mason. 1990. Moral Relativism

(http://www.jstor.org/stable/i201431). Special Issue of Ethos. 18(2).

Howell, Signe (ed.), 1997. The Ethnography of Moralities

(https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ethnography_of_Moralities.html?
id=P2-iW5x0Z84C). London: Routledge.

Jackson, Michael. 1982. Allegories of the Wilderness: Ethics and Ambiguity in

Kuranko Narratives
(https://books.google.com/books/about/Allegories_of_the_wilderness.html?
id=OAOCAAAAMAAJ). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Kleinman, Arthur. 1999. “Experience and Its Moral Modes: Culture, Human
Conditions, and Disorder.” In G.B. Peterson (ed), The Tanner Lectures on
Human Values (https://www.amazon.com/Tanner-Lectures-Vol-Human-
Values/dp/0874805996) 20:357-420. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Mattingly, Cheryl. 1998. “In Search of the Good: Narrative Reasoning in

Clinical Practice (https://www.jstor.org/stable/649684).” Medical
Anthropology Quarterly 12(3): 273-97.

Parish, Steven. 1994. Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of

Mind, Emotion, and self
(https://books.google.com/books/about/Moral_Knowing_in_a_Hindu_Sacred_City
id=9SUg j0evwmkC). New York: Columbia University Press.

Parkin, David (ed). 1985. The Anthropology of Evil

(https://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-Evil-David-Parkin/dp/0631154329).
Oxford: Blackwell.

Pocock, D. F. 1986. “The Ethnography of Morals.” International Journal of

Moral and Social Studies 1(1): 3-20.

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1995. “The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for

a Militant Anthropology
(http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/204378).” Current
Anthropology 36(3): 409-420.

Shweder, Richard A. 1990. “In Defense of Moral Realism: Reply to

Gabennesch (http://www.jstor.org/stable/1130859).” Child Development
61(6): 2060-2067.

Shweder, Richard, Nancy Much, Manamohan Mahapatra, and Lawrence

Park. 1997. “The ‘Big Three’ of Morality (Autonomy, Community, and
Divinity) and the ‘Big Three’ Explanations of Suffering.” In A.M. Brand and P.
Rozin (eds), Morality and Health (https://books.google.com/books?
id=2ZEBPUocHLwC). New York: Routledge. Pp. 19-169.

III. The “Ethical-Turn”

Framings/Articulations

Barker, John (ed.). 2007. The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and

Beyond (https://www.routledge.com/The-Anthropology-of-Morality-in-
Melanesia-and-Beyond/Barker/p/book/9780754671855). Hampshire: Ashgate
Publishing Company.

Cassaniti, Julia and Jacob Hickman. 2014. “New Directions in the

Anthropology of Morality
(http://ant.sagepub.com/content/14/3/251.abstract).” Anthropological
Theory 14(3): 251-262.

Castaneda, Quetzil E. 2006. “Ethnography in the Forest: An Analysis of Ethics

in the Morals of Anthropology
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/can.2006.21.1.121/abstract).”
Cultural Anthropology 21(1): 121-145.

Csordas, Thomas. 2013. “Morality as a Cultural System?”

(http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/672210) Current Anthropology 54(5):
523-545.

Evans, T.M.S. 2008. Anthropology as Ethics: Nondualism and the Conduct of

Sacrifice (http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/EvensAnthropology). Oxford:
Berghahn Books.

Fassin, Didier (ed.). 2012. A Companion to Moral Anthropology

(http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047065645X.html).
Malden, MA.: Wiley-Blackwell.

Fassin, Didier and Samuel Lézé (eds.). 2014. Moral Anthropology: A Critical
Reader (https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Anthropology-Critical-Didier-
Fassin/dp/0415627273). New York: Routledge.

Faubion, James (ed.). 2001. The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquiries

(https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ethics_of_Kinship.html?id=6-
v7r9KOrTkC). Oxford: Roman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Faubion, James. 2011. An Anthropology of Ethics

(http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/anthropology/anthropological-
theory/anthropology-ethics?format=PB&isbn=9780521181952). Cambridge:
Cambridge University press.

Heintz, Monica (ed.). 2009. The Anthropology of Moralities

(http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HeintzAnthropology). Oxford:
Berghahn Books

Keane, Webb. 2015. Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories
(http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10588.html). Princeton: University of
Princeton Press.

Laidlaw, James. 2013. The Subject of Virtue: An Anthropology of Ethics and

Freedom (https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Subject_of_Virtue.html?
id=ybT1AAAAQBAJ). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lambek, Michael, Veena Das, Didier Fassin and Webb Keane (eds). 2015.
Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives
(http://haubooks.org/four-lectures-on-ethics/). Chicago: HAU Books.

Robbins, Joel. 2013. “Beyond the Suffering Subject: Toward an Anthropology

of the Good (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-
9655.12044/abstract).” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19(3):
447-462.

Sykes, Karen (ed.). 2009. Ethnographies of Moral Reasoning: Living Paradoxes

of a Global Age (http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230609815). New
York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Yan, Yunxiang. 2011. “How Far Away Can We Move From Durkheim? –
Reflections on the New Anthropology of Morality
(http://aotcpress.com/articles/move-durkheim-reflections-anthropology-
morality/).” Anthropology This Century. Issue 2.

Yan, Yunxiang. 2014. “The Moral Implications of Immorality: The Chinese

Case for a New Anthropology of Morality
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jore.12066/abstract).” Journal
of Religious Ethics 42(3): 460-493.

Zigon, Jarrett. 2008. Morality: An Anthropological Perspective

(https://books.google.com/books/about/Morality.html?id=m9wjAQAAIAAJ).
Bloomsbury Academic.
Zigon, Jarrett and C. Jason Throop (eds.). 2014. Moral Experience
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/etho.2014.42.issue-1/issuetoc).
Special Issue of the Journal Ethos 42(1).

Foucauldian Reverberations and Contestations

Faubian, James D. 2001. “Toward an Anthropology of Ethics: Foucault and

the Pedagogies of Autopoiesis
(http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rep.2001.74.1.83).” Representations
74(1): 83-104.

Faubian, James D. 2013. “The Subject that is Not One: On the Ethics of
Mysticism (http://ant.sagepub.com/content/13/4/287.short).”
Anthropological Theory 13(4): 287-307.

Daswani, Girish. 2013. “On Christianity and Ethics: Rupture as Ethical

Practice in Ghanaian Pentecostalism
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/amet.12033/abstract).”
American Ethnologist 40(3): 467-479.

Laidlaw, James. 2002. “For an Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom

(https://www.jstor.org/stable/3134477).” Journal of the Royal Anthropological
Institute 8(2): 311-332.

Laidlaw, James. 2014. “The Undefined Work of Freedom: Foucault’s

Genealogy and the Anthropology of Ethics.” In James D. Faubion (ed.),
Foucault Now: Current Perspectives in Foucault Studies
(http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745663784). Cambridge: Polity
Press. Pp. 23-37.

Mahmood, Saba. 2001. “Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile

Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival
(https://www.jstor.org/stable/656537).” Cultural Anthropology 6(2): 202-236.

Mahmood, Saba. 2005. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist
Subject (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9563.html). Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
Mattingly, Cheryl. 2012. “Two Virtue Ethics and the Anthropology of
Morality (http://ant.sagepub.com/content/12/2/161.abstract).”
Anthropological Theory 12(2): 161-184.

Mattingly, Cheryl. 2013. “Moral Selves and Moral Scenes: Narrative

Experiments in Everyday Life
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3891672/).” Ethnos 78(3):
301-327.

Nakissa, Aria. 2014. “An Ethical Solution to the Problem of Legal

Indeterminacy: Shari`a scholarship at Egypt’s al-Azhar
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.12081/full).” Journal
of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20(1): 93-112.

Robbins, Joel. 2004. Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a

Papua New Guinea Society (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?
isbn=9780520238008). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Robbins, Joel. 2007. “Between Reproduction and Freedom: Morality, Value,

and Radical Cultural Change
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141840701576919).”
Ethnos 72(3): 293-314.

Ordinary Ethics

Das, Veena. 2012. “Ordinary Ethics.” Pp. 133-149 in Didier Fassin (ed.), A
Companion to Moral Anthropology
(http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047065645X.html).
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Das, Veena. 2015. “What Does Ordinary Ethics Look Like?” in Michael
Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin and Webb Keane (eds), Four Lectures on
Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives (http://haubooks.org/four-lectures-on-
ethics/). Chicago: HAU Books.

Lambek, Michael. 2008. “Value and Virtue

(http://ant.sagepub.com/content/8/2/133.abstract).” Anthropological Theory
8(2): 133-57.
Lambek, Michael (ed.). 2010. Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and
Action (http://fordhampress.com/index.php/ordinary-ethics-paperback.html).
Fordham University Press.

Lambek, Michael. 2015. The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and
Value
(http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo21263571.html).
University of Chicago Press.

Lambek, Michael. 2015. “On the Immanence of the Ethical: A Response to

Michael Lempert, ‘No Ordinary Ethics
(http://ant.sagepub.com/content/15/2/128.abstract).” Anthropological
Theory 15(2): 128-132.

Lempert, Michael. 2013. “No Ordinary Ethics

(http://ant.sagepub.com/content/13/4/370.abstract).” Anthropological
Theory 13(4): 370-393.

Mattingly, Cheryl. 2014. Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for
a Good Life (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520281202).
Berkeley: University of California Pres.

Mattingly, Cheryl. 2014. “Love’s Imperfection: Moral Becoming, Friendship,

and Family Life
(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286677816_Love's_imperfection_m
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finish Anthropological Society 39(1): 53-67.

Naumescu, Vlad. 2016. “The End of times and the Near Future: The Ethical
Engagements of Russian Old Believers in Romania
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.12379/abstract).”
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22(2): 314-331.

Pandian, Anand. 2008. “Tradition in Fragments: Inherited Forms and

Fractures in the Ethics of South India
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00048.x/full).”
American Ethnologist 35(3): 466-480.

Stafford, Charles (ed.). 2013. Ordinary Ethics in China

(http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ordinary-ethics-in-china-9780857854599/).
London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Zigon, Jarrett. 2014. “An Ethics of Dwelling and Anti-War Activism: A
Critical Response to Ordinary Ethics
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.12133/abstract).”
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 20(4): 746-764.

Moral Experience

Al-Mohammad, Haydar. 2010. “Towards an Ethics of Being-With:

Intertwinements of Life in Post-Invasion Basra
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141844.2010.544394).”
Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 75(4): 425-446.

Benson, Peter and Kevin Lewis O’neill. 2007. “Facing Risk: Levinas,
Ethnography, and Ethics
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/ac.2007.18.2.29/abstract).”
Anthropology of Consciousness 18(2): 29-55.

Garcia, Angela. 2014. “The Promise: On the Morality of the Marginal and the
Illicit (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/etho.12038/abstract).”
Ethos 42(1): 51-64.

Geurts, Kathryn Linn. 2002. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in
an African Community (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?
isbn=9780520234567). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Jackson, Michael. 2013. The Wherewithal of Life: Ethics, Migration, and the
Question of Well-Being (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?
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Kleinman, Arthur. 2007. What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst
Uncertainty and Danger (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/what-
really-matters-9780195331325?cc=us&lang=en&). Oxford: Oxford University
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Kleinman, Arthur, et al.2011. Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person
(http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520269453). Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Lester, Rebecca. 2005. Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a
Mexican Convent (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520242685).
Berkeley: University of California Press.

Mattingly, Cheryl. 2010. The Paradox of Hope: Journeys Through a Clinical

Borderland (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520267350).
Berkeley: University of California Press.

Pandian, Anand. 2010. “Interior Horizons: An Ethical Space of Selfhood in

South Asia (https://www.jstor.org/stable/40541805).” Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute 16(1): 64-83.

Parish, Steven. 2014. “Between Persons: How Concepts of the Person Make
Moral Experience Possible
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/etho.12037/abstract).” Ethos
42(1): 31-50.

Robbins, Joel. 2009. “Value, Structure, and the Range of Possibilities: A

Response to Zigon
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141840902940500).”
Ethnos 74(2): 277-285.

Rydstrom, Helle. 2003. Embodying Morality: Growing up in Rural Northern

Vietnam (http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-3062-9780824825249.aspx).
Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press.

Throop, C. Jason. 2008. “‘Becoming Beautiful in the Dance’: On the

Formation of Ethical Modalities of Being in Yap, Federated States of
Micronesia (http://www.jstor.org/stable/40495612).” Oceania 79(2): 179-201.

Throop, C. Jason. 2010. Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of

Experience and Pain in Yap (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?
isbn=9780520260580). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Throop, C. Jason. 2012. “Moral Sentiments.” Pp. 150-168 in Didier Fassin

(ed.) A Companion to Moral Anthropology
(http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047065645X.html).
Wiley-Blackwell.
Throop, C. Jason. 2014. “Moral Moods
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/etho.12039/abstract).” Ethos
42(1): 65-83.

Throop, C. Jason. 2014. “Friendship as Moral Experience: Ethnographic

Dimensions and Ethical Reflections
(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283675405_Friendship_as_moral_ex
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 39(1): 68-
80.

Throop, C. Jason. 2015. “Ambivalent Happiness and Virtuous Suffering

(http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau5.3.004).” HAU
5(3): 45-68.

Zigon, Jarrett. 2007. “Moral Breakdown and the Ethical Demand: A

Theoretical Framework for an Anthropology of Moralities
(http://ant.sagepub.com/content/7/2/131.abstract).” Anthropological Theory
7(2): 131-150.

Zigon, Jarrett. 2009. “Within a Range of Possibilities: Morality and Ethics in

Social Life
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141840902940492).”
Ethnos 74(2): 251-276.

Zigon, Jarrett. 2009. “Phenomenological Anthropology and Morality: A

Reply to Robbins
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141840902940518?
journalCode=retn20).” Ethnos 74(2): 286-288.

Zigon, Jarrett. 2010. Making the New Post-Soviet Person: Moral Experience in
Contemporary Moscow (http://www.brill.com/making-new-post-soviet-person).
Leiden: Brill.

Zigon, Jarrett. 2013. “On Love: Remaking Moral Subjectivity in

Postrehabilitation Russia
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Ethnologist 40(1): 201-215.
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HAU Book Review Symposia on the “Ethical Turn”

Didier Fassin, James Faubion, Webb Keane, Eduardo Kohn, Michael

Lempert, Cheryl Mattingly, Veena Das, and James Laidlaw. 2014. “Book
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Throop, Richard Shweder, and Webb Keane. 2016. “Book Symposium –
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Jason Throop is Professor of Anthropology & Vice Chair of Undergraduate

Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Suffering
and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap
(University of California Press, 2010) and the coeditor of the volumes Toward an
Anthropology of the Will (Stanford University Press, 2010) and The
Anthropology of Empathy: Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific
Societies (Berghahn Books, 2011).

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