From Australia to Peru, from the Netherlands to Mali, from Sweden to Mexico, from France to Romania, the fourteen anthropologists and sociologists gathered for this book by Guillaume Alevêque and Arnauld Chandivert take a critical look at their fields of research to question the processes of moralization of culture and heritage.
At a time when nationalisms, migrations, religions and memorial, artistic and festive practices are fuelling lively polemics, this book constitutes a novel and essential approach to the interactions between culture and morality. What does ethics and morality do to culture? What does culture do to morality?
Far from merely reflecting opposition and asymmetries, the contributions reflect the interweaving of ethical and moral regimes applied to cultural issues, without being satisfied with schematic interpretations of value issues, Today, they saturate public discourse and debate.
Guillaume Alevêque is an anthropologist, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Montpellier and associated with the Institut interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (IIAC). He specializes in the political and religious reappropriation movements of the past in French Polynesia and the history of Christianization.
Arnauld Chandivert is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and reports to the UMR Savoirs, environnement et sociétés. He specializes in issues of identity and belonging, heritage, but also the history of anthropology.
Contributions from: Guillaume Alévêque, Markus Balkenhol, Emanuela Canghiari, Laure Carbonnel, Estelle Castro-Koshy, Gaetano Ciarcia, Anath Ariel de Vidas, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Monica Heintz, Géraldine Le Roux, Marion Lièvre, Émir Mahieddin, Paul Mepschen, Jocelyne Streiff-Fénart, Claudie Voisenat.
' Morals, the culture?
Shortly after the attacks of 13 November 2015, the European Union’s ministers of culture issued a statement stating, among other things, «Culture is one of the essential answers.» Why? The question seems increasingly incongruous, as the link between cultural phenomena and moral values has become obvious. Based on a social science research program, this dense, rigorous and lively collective book seeks to measure the phenomenon, analyze its causes and determine its nature based on surveys conducted in France, Mali, Australia and Mexico.” Le Monde, April 25, 2023
272 pages - 24€ - ISBN 978-2-7351-2928-7
«Collection Ethnologie de la France et des mondes contemporains», Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture.
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