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Jahrbuch für Kulinaristik, Bd. 2 (2018)

Author : Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Publisher : Iudicium
ISBN 13 : 3862059715
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Jahrbuch für Kulinaristik, Bd. 2 (2018) written by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit and published by Iudicium. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wovon reden wir, wenn wir von "japanischer", "chinesischer" oder "koreanischer Küche" reden? Der Schwerpunkt "Der globalisierte Gaumen: Ostasiens Küchen auf Reisen" wurde so konzipiert, dass er die vielfältigen Dimensionen und Effekte der Globalisierung beispielhaft an den "Reisen" ostasiatischer Küchen zum Vorschein bringt. Die zwölf Beiträge beleuchten neben Kapital-, Personen und Warenverkehr vor allem historische und kulturelle Faktoren. Originalität, Tradition und Authentizität sind thematische Knotenpunkte. Die Vielfalt der Problemstellungen spiegelt sich in der Bandbreite der methodischen Zugänge und Perspektiven. Abgerundet wird dieser Teil durch zwei Dokumentationen, eine annotierte deutsch-englische Bibliographie zur kulinaristischen Forschung zu Ost- und Südostasien in den Sprachen Englisch, Deutsch, Japanisch, Koreanisch und Französisch und eine Liste akademischer Abschlussarbeiten aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum. Mit der "Kulinaristischen Ökologie" wird ein neuer Denkansatz aus dem Bereich der Lebens- und Umweltwissenschaften für das Feld der Kulinaristik vorgestellt. Dieser soll die ökologischen Konsequenzen und weltweiten Eingriffsfolgen aufzeigen, die dem Groß-Ökosystem 'Erde' und seinen großlandschaftlichen Subsystemen durch Nahrungsbeschaffung für eine ungebremst wachsende Weltbevölkerung erwachsen. Die Beiträge zum Thema "Das Gericht" loten mit den Mitteln von Wortsemantik und Etymologie, von praxisorientierter Begriffsgeschichte wie mit dem Versuch einer optisch unterfütterten Möbel- und Designgeschichte seine Vieldeutigkeit aus, abgerundet durch ein org.editeur.onix.v21.shorts.I@74cd72cf von italienischer Gegenwartsliteratur im Blick auf eine neue Essensmoral. Der Teil "Varia" besucht u.a. mit den Bahnhofsgaststätten einen für das kulturelle Gedächtnis Europas markanten transitorischen Ort.

Jahrbuch für Kulinaristik, Bd 1, 2017

Author : Alois Wierlacher
Publisher : Iudicium
ISBN 13 : 3862059707
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Jahrbuch für Kulinaristik, Bd 1, 2017 written by Alois Wierlacher and published by Iudicium. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essen und Trinken sind nutritive Grundbedürfnisse und Lustquellen menschlichen Daseins, nichtdelegierbare Handlungen, kulturtragende Formen der Kommunikation, Anker der Gastlichkeit, Situationen, Symbolsysteme und Rituale, Agrar-, Handel- und Industrieprodukte, Selbstbehauptungsmedien und Bestände der kulturellen Gedächtnisse. All diese Bedeutungen werden im Leben der Menschen mit kommunikativen, juristischen, politischen, religiösen, ästhetischen, hygienischen, ethischen und moralischen Faktoren ihres Zusammenlebens verknüpft. In ihrer Gesamtheit prägt die Bedeutungs- und Faktorenfülle menschliches Leben in einem so umfassenden Maße, dass man vom Essen und Trinken als einem 'sozialen Totalphänomen' gesprochen hat (Marcel Mauss). Soll dieses 'Totalphänomen' in seiner globalen Komplexität erforscht und vermittelt werden, reicht eine singuläre Disziplin nicht hin. Dann wird eine vielstimmige Erkenntnisarbeit benötigt, die das Nachdenken der einzelnen Disziplinen im Horizont einer Theorie und Praxis übergreifenden Sicht zusammenführt. Als Bezeichnung für diese Sicht hat Alois Wierlacher den Ausdruck 'Kulinaristik' geprägt (von lat. culina, die Küche). Er ist ein Klammerbegriff ähnlich wie die Begriffe 'Medizin' oder 'Chemie'. Er fasst die vielseitige Erforschung und Vermittlung der Rolle und Funktion des Essens und Trinkens im Aufbau der Kultur(en), in der Verständigung zwischen den Menschen und im Leben des einzelnen ins Wort. Dieser Aufgabe dient auch das Jahrbuch. Es wird im Auftrag des Kulinaristik-Forums von renommierten Vertretern verschiedener Sachgebiete herausgegeben. Sein kompositorisches Konzept ist nicht die Einsinnigkeit, sondern eine dem Gegenstand adäquate Vielfalt von Formen und Farben der Annäherungen.

The Migrant Crisis

Author : Melani Barlai
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643908024
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book The Migrant Crisis written by Melani Barlai and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time migration to Europe has been a subordinate issue on the public agenda. But with the recent wave of refugees from Arab and African countries, the question of how the EU, national governments and societies are able to cope with the arrival of millions of migrants, has become a core theme of public discourse. This volume displays the debates for the countries which are on the migration routes or which are among the most desired targets, hence are the most affected. The book thus attempts to give a broader European perspective on the migrant crisis and its public repercussions. (Series: Studies in Political Communication / Studien zur politischen Kommunikation, Vol. 13) [Subject: Migration Studies, Politics, European Studies]

Coffee Life in Japan

Author : Merry White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271157
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Coffee Life in Japan written by Merry White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Cafes are where change happens and people feel most themselves. In this surprising book we see how Japan came of age in the café—where women became free, where people jazz and poetry could reign. And, of course, where coffee is at its perfectionist best. Always a congenial companion and teacher, Merry White shows us a whole society in a beautifully made cup.” —Corby Kummer, The Atlantic “Merry White's book is vital reading for anyone interested in culture and coffee, which has a surprising and surprisingly long history in Japan. Tracing the evolving role of the country's cafes, and taking us on armchair visits to some of the best, White makes us want to board a plane immediately to sample a cup brewed with ‘kodawari,’ a passion bordering on obsession. “ —Devra First, The Boston Globe "Coffee Life in Japan features highly engaging history and ethnographic detail on coffee culture in Japan. Many readers will delight in reading this work. White provides an affectionate, deeply felt, well reasoned book on coffee, cafes, and urban spaces in Japan."—Christine Yano, author of Airborne Dreams: "Nisei" Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways "Combining unmistakable relish for the subject with decades of academic expertise, Merry White skillfully demonstrates that the café, not the teahouse, is a core space in urban Japanese life. Her portrait of their endurance, proliferation, and diversity aptly illustrates how coffee drinking establishments accommodate social and personal needs, catering to a range of tastes and functions. It is a lovely and important book not only about the history and meanings of Japan’s liquid mojo, but also about the creation of new urban spaces for privacy and sociality." —Laura Miller, author of Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics

Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer

Author : Norbert Bachleitner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110641976
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer written by Norbert Bachleitner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three concepts mentioned in the title of this volume imply the contact between two or more literary phenomena; they are based on similarities that are related to a form of ‘travelling’ and imitation or adaptation of entire texts, genres, forms or contents. Transfer comprises all sorts of ‘travelling’, with translation as a major instrument of transferring literature across linguistic and cultural barriers. Transfer aims at the process of communication, starting with the source product and its cultural context and then highlighting the mediation by certain agents and institutions to end up with inclusion in the target culture. Reception lays its focus on the receiving culture, especially on critcism, reading, and interpretation. Translation, therefore, forms a major factor in reception with the general aim of reception studies being to reveal the wide spectrum of interpretations each text offers. Moreover, translations are the prime instrument in the distribution of literature across linguistic and cultural borders; thus, they pave the way for gaining prestige in the world of literature. The thirty-eight papers included in this volume and dedicated to research in this area were previously read at the ICLA conference 2016 in Vienna. They are ample proof that the field remains at the center of interest in Comparative Literature.

Feeding Japan

Author : Andreas Niehaus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331950553X
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Feeding Japan written by Andreas Niehaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the historical dimensions, cultural practices, socio-economic mechanisms and political agendas that shape the notion of a national cuisine inside and outside of Japan. Japanese food is often perceived as pure, natural, healthy and timeless, and these words not only fuel a hype surrounding Japanese food and lifestyle worldwide, but also a domestic retro-movement that finds health and authenticity in ‘traditional’ ingredients, dishes and foodways. The authors in this volume bring together research from the fields of history, cultural and religious studies, food studies as well as political science and international relations, and aim to shed light on relevant aspects of culinary nationalism in Japan while unearthing the underlying patterns and processes in the construction of food identities.

Asian Masculinities

Author : Kam Louie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113442759X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Asian Masculinities written by Kam Louie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how East Asian masculinities are being formed and transformed as Asia is increasingly globalized. The gender roles performed by Chinese and Japanese men are examined not just as they are lived in Asia, but also in the West. The essays collected here enhance current understandings of East Asian identities and cultures as well as Western conceptions of gender and sexuality. While basic issues such as masculine ideals in China and Japan are examined, the book also addresses issues including homosexuality, women's perceptions of men, the role of sport and food and Asian men in the Chinese diaspora.

Anxious Wealth

Author : John Osburg
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080478535X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Anxious Wealth written by John Osburg and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic study of China’s new elites and their rarified world of debauchery and corruption: “A must have book for China studies” (Choice). This pioneering investigation reveals the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the Chinese city of Chengdu. For more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and government officials. Now he invites readers along on his journey through the highly gendered world of luxury karaoke clubs, saunas, and massage parlors—places designed to cater to the desires of elite men. Within these spaces, a masculinization of business is taking place. Osburg details the complex code of behavior that governs businessmen as they go about banqueting, drinking, gambling, bribing, exchanging gifts, and obtaining sexual services. These intricate social networks play a key role in generating business, performing social status, and reconfiguring gender roles. Yet underneath the façade, many entrepreneurs feel trapped by their obligations and moral compromises in this evolving environment. Osburg examines their deep ambivalence about China’s future and their own complicity in the major issues of post-Mao Chinese society—corruption, inequality, materialism, and loss of trust.

Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast

Author : René Dirven
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110173743
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast written by René Dirven and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2003 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's twodomain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy continuum. Still other papers probe into the specialized conceptual division of labor associated with both modes of thought. Two new breakthroughs in the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor and metonymy have recently been developed: one is the three-domain approach, which concentrates on the new blends that become possible after the integration or the blending of source and target domain elements; the other is the approach in terms of primary scenes and subscenes which often determine the way source and target domains interact.

Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World

Author : Yuson Jung
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520277406
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World written by Yuson Jung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as "local," "organic," and "fair trade"--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, and Melissa L. Caldwell explore what constitutes "ethical food" and "ethical eating" in socialist and formerly socialist societies. With essays by anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers, this politically nuanced volume offers insight into the origins of alternative food movements and their place in today's global economy. Collectively, the essays cover discourses on food and morality; the material and social practices surrounding production, trade, and consumption; and the political and economic power of social movements in Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Lithuania, Russia, and Vietnam. Scholars and students will gain important historical and anthropological perspective on how the dynamics of state-market-citizen relations continue to shape the ethical and moral frameworks guiding food practices around the world.

The Globalization of Asian Cuisines

Author : James Farrer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137514086
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Globalization of Asian Cuisines written by James Farrer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a framework for understanding the global flows of cuisine both into and out of Asia and describes the development of transnational culinary fields connecting Asia to the broader world. Individual chapters provide historical and ethnographic accounts of the people, places, and activities involved in Asia's culinary globalization.

Modern Japanese Cuisine

Author : Katarzyna Joanna Cwiertka
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861892980
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Modern Japanese Cuisine written by Katarzyna Joanna Cwiertka and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Katarzyna Cwiertka shows that key shifts in the Japanese diet were, in many cases, a consequence of modern imperialism. Exploring reforms in home cooking and military catering, wartime food management and the rise of urban gastronomy, she reveals how Japan's pre-modern culinary diversity was eventually replaced by a truly 'national' cuisine - a set of foods and practices with which the majority of Japanese today ardently identify." "The result of more than a decade of research, Modern Japanese Cuisine is a look at the historical roots of one of the world's best cuisines. It includes additional information on the influx of Japanese food and restaurants in Western countries, and how in turn these developments have informed our view of Japanese cuisine. This book is appetizing reading for all those interested in Japanese culture and its influences."--BOOK JACKET.

Anthropology and Migration

Author : Caroline B. Brettell
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759116091
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Migration written by Caroline B. Brettell and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brettell's new book provides new insight into the processes of migration and transnationalism from an anthropological perspective. It has been estimated at the turn of the millennium that 160 million people are living outside of their country of birth or citizenship. The author analyzes macro and micro approaches to migration theory, utilizing her extensive fieldwork in Portugal as well as research in Germany, Brazil, France, the United States and Canada. Key issues she discusses include: the value of immigrant incorporation vs. assimilation models; the impacts on individual, household and community as well as institutions and states; the role of ethnicity and ethnic groups; the effects of clandestine or illegal immigration; the differing commitments to host vs. sending communities; the shift from city enclaves to suburban areas; the constraints and opportunities that lead to ethnic entrepreneurship; the role of religion in transnational linkages; and the differing experiences of men and women as migrants. Brettell also explores the relevance of life histories and oral narratives in understanding the immigration process and the mediation of boundaries in a new society. This book provides a fresh perspective on the contemporary experience of migration and will be indispensable to instructors and researchers in anthropology, race and ethnic studies, immigration studies, urban studies, sociology, and international relations.

Feeling Asian Modernities

Author : Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 962209631X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Feeling Asian Modernities written by Koichi Iwabuchi and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent transnational reach of Japanese television dramas in East and Southeast Asia is unprecedented, and not simply in terms of the range and scale of diffusion, but also of the intense sympathy many young Asians feel toward the characters in Japanese dramas, so that they cope with their own modern lives by emulating the lives on screen. Through the empirical analysis of how Japanese youth dramas are (re)produced, circulated, regulated, and consumed in East and Southeast Asia, each chapter in this volume variously explores the ways in which intra-Asian cultural flows highlight cultural resonance and asymmetry in the region under the decentering processes of globalization. Key questions include: What is the nature of Japanese cultural power and influence in the region and how is it historically overdetermined? How is it similar to and different from "Americanization" and other Asian cultural sub-centers? What kinds of images and sense of intimacy and distance are perceived through the reception of Japanese youth dramas?

Regional Risk and Security in Japan

Author : Glenn D. Hook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317584864
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Regional Risk and Security in Japan written by Glenn D. Hook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan’s unusual position in the realm of international politics encapsulates a three-fold juxtaposition: both in and out of Asia, both occupied by and a close ally of the United States, and both a key trade partner and a strategic rival of China. Whilst international relations theory offers a number of ways to analyse these relations, this book instead utilizes the concept of risk to provide an innovative perspective on Japan’s relations with China, North Korea and the US. The book elucidates how risk, potential harm and harm are faced disproportionately by certain groups in society. This is demonstrated by providing an empirically rich analysis of the domestic implications of security relations with China, North Korea and the United States through the presence of US troops in Okinawa. Beginning with a theoretical discussion of risk, it goes on to demonstrate how the concept of risk adds value to the study of international relations in three senses. First, the concept helps to break down the boundaries between the international and domestic. Second, the focus on risk and the everyday directs us to ask basic questions about the costs and benefits of a security policy meant to secure the national population. Third, what implications do these two points have for governance? The question is one of governance as Japan’s externally oriented security policy produces domestic insecurity shared disproportionately, not equally, as this volume makes clear. Developing the theory of risk as a tool for understanding international relations, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, Japanese politics, international relations and security studies, as well as to policy makers and practitioners working in the field.

Labour Migration from China to Japan

Author : Gracia Liu-Farrer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415600224
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Labour Migration from China to Japan written by Gracia Liu-Farrer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese students are the largest international student population in the world, and Japan attracts more of them than any other country. Since the mid-1980s when China opened the door to let private citizens out and Japan began to let more foreigners in, over 300 thousand Chinese have arrived in Japan as students. Student migrants are the most visible, controversial and active Chinese immigrants in Japan. The majority of them enter Japanâe(tm)s labour market and many have stayed on indefinitely. Based on the authorâe(tm)s original fieldwork data and government statistics, this book gives a comprehensive portrayal of an often neglected group of international migrants in a society that for decades has been considered a non-immigrant country. It introduces Chinese studentsâe(tm) diverse mobility trajectories, analyses their career patterns, describes their transnational living arrangements, and explores the mechanisms that give rise to their identity as 'new overseas Chinese'. This book contributes to our understanding of international migration and international education in an age of globalization. It points out that student migrants are key to the internationalization of Japanese society, and potentially in other countries where immigration is still considered a challenging reality. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Sociology and Labour Studies.

The Anthropology of Moralities

Author : Monica Heintz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845455927
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Anthropology of Moralities written by Monica Heintz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists have been keenly aware of the tension between cultural relativism and absolute norms, and nowhere has this been more acute than with regards to moral values. Can we study the Other's morality without applying our own normative judgments? How do social anthropologists keep both the distance required by science and the empathy required for the analysis of lived experiences? The plurality of moralities has not received an explicit and focused attention until recently, when accelerated globalization often resulted in the collision of different value systems. Observing, describing and assessing values cross-culturally, the authors propose various methodological approaches to the study of moralities, illustrated with rich ethnographic accounts, thus offering a valuable guide for students of anthropology, sociology and cultural studies and for professionals concerned with the empirical and cross-cultural study of values.