There Is No Such Thing as an African Value of Dependence & What Is the Matter with Values?: A Reply to Joel Robbins & A Response to Lockwood.
In "Anthropology Bright and Dark," Joel Robbins encourages anthropologists to identify "visions of the good" and to explore whether they enable or inhibit "human flourishing." Ethnographic work on dependence in southern Africa informs his approach and provides a key example of a "model of the good l...
| Publicado en: | Social Analysis Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 82 - 109 |
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Berghahn Books
2025
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