Lying, honor, and contradiction
| Autor: | Michael Gilsenan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Value (ethics)
060101 anthropology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography 06 humanities and the arts 050701 cultural studies Epistemology Negotiation Anthropology Honor Contradiction 0601 history and archaeology Product (category theory) Meaning (existential) Sociology Element (criminal law) Lying media_common |
| Zdroj: | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 6:497-525 |
| ISSN: | 2049-1115 2575-1433 |
| DOI: | 10.14318/hau6.2.031 |
| Popis: | This essay focuses on the ways in which meaning emerges in the practical reality of the everyday world rather than on the formal construction of systems of classification and symbolism.1 With a particular concentration on the manifold practices of what will be called “lying,” I shall try to show the way in which individuals in a Lebanese village negotiate and transact about the most important area of value in any culture, social personality and the significance with which behavior is invested. I shall go on to argue that kizb, the Arabic word translated here as “lying,” is a fundamental element not only of specific situations and individual actions, but of the cultural universe as a whole; and that further it is the product of, and produces in |
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