This course uses ethnographic and historical cases to explore how ethical and moral values are embedded in social and cultural contexts and how social encounters may bring alternative or competing ethical registers into contact and conflict. Topics include virtue ethics, caregiving, reciprocity, volunteerism, charity, and global humanitarianism.
This course uses ethnographic and historical cases to explore how ethical and moral values are embedded in social and cultural contexts and how social encounters may bring alternative or competing ethical registers into contact and conflict. Topics include virtue ethics, caregiving, reciprocity, volunteerism, charity, and global humanitarianism.
