The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology
@article{ScheperHughes1995ThePO, title={The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology}, author={Nancy Scheper‐Hughes}, journal={Current Anthropology}, year={1995}, volume={36}, pages={409 - 440} }
CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY Volume 36, Number 3, June r995 ttl 1995 by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved oo32041~5136o3·ooo3S2..oo The Primacy of the Ethical Propositions for a Militant Anthropology! by Nancy Scheper-Hughes In bracketing certain Western Enlightenment truths we hold and defend as self-evident at home in order to engage theoreti cally a multiplicity of alternative truths encoded in our reified notion of culture, anthropologists may be…
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