ANT212H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Agency, Free Moral Agents, Andrena
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We reject any such criteria - all persons are inherently and equally valuable. An ideal perhaps but one to which we all, more or less, seem to subscribe. Morality and the concept of the person among the gahuku-gama. Kenneth road, the gahuku-gama and the concept of a person. Whereas philisophers typically take a prescriptive position, anthropologists take a descriptive. Not how we should but rather how we (and others) actually do think about moral matters. An early case in point is to be found in the work of the anthropologist kenneth. He first went to papua new guinea during ww1 as a soldier, part of the. Australian occupation - essentially protecting australian interests from possible. After the war he returned to conduct fieldwork among the people he describes as the gahuku-gama. Papua new guinea is a remote place to begin with and the gahuku-gama live in reote part of the island.
