TY  - BOOK
ED  - Gregory, Chris
ED  - Altman, Jon
AB  - The study of the quest for the good life and the morality and value it presupposes is not new. To the contrary, this is an ancient issue; its intellectual history can be traced back to Aristotle. In anthropology, the study of morality and value has always been a central concern, despite the claim of some scholars that the recent upsurge of interest in these issues is new. What is novel is how scholars in many disciplines are posing the value question in new ways. The global economic alignments of the present pose many political, moral and theoretical questions, but the central issue the essays in this collection address is: how do relatively poor people of the Australia–Pacific region survive in current precarious times? In looking to answer this question, contributors directly engage the values and concepts of their interlocutors. At a time when understanding local implications of global processes is taking on new urgency, these essays bring finely honed anthropological perspectives to matters of universal human concern—they offer radical empirical critique based on intensive fieldwork that will be of great interest to those seeking to comprehend the bigger picture.
DO  - 10.22459/QGLPT.03.2018
ID  - OAPEN ID: 649535
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1031715825
KW  - morality
KW  - moral economy
KW  - anthropology
KW  - ethnography
KW  - Australia
KW  - Bininj Kunwok language
KW  - Kastom
KW  - Maningrida
KW  - Northern Territory
KW  - Yolngu
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/cfdf8537-3099-43ba-9659-abe6d6da7a5e/649535.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30169
PB  - ANU Press
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781760462000
TI  - The Quest for the Good Life in Precarious Times : Ethnographic Perspectives on the Domestic Moral Economy
ER  - 
