Moral Laboratories

Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life

von Cheryl Mattingly

280 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Moral Laboratories is an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray into the anthropology of morality. It takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families caring for children with serious chronic medical conditions, and it foregrounds the uncertainty that affects their struggles for a good life. Challenging depictions of moral transformation as possible only in moments of breakdown or in radical breaches from the ordinary, it offers a compelling portrait of the transformative powers embedded in day-to-day existence. From soccer fields to dinner tables, the everyday emerges as a moral laboratory for reshaping moral life. Cheryl Mattingly offers vivid and heart-wrenching stories to elaborate a first-person ethical framework, forcefully showing the limits of third-person renderings of morality.

• Reihe: University of California Press
• ISBN: 9780520281196
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2014
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: UCAL POD