In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

Ethics, honour and the dangers of over-ritualization, part 3

| July 13, 2010

In the previous part of this series, I really concentrated on the environment of role expectations and especially, on the boundaries of these.  As I was reading the CBC.ca news this morning, I found a story that just illustrated many of the points I made in the last post, especially the points about communications and [...]

What is “harm”?

| September 30, 2008

One of the nice things about being a pessimistic romantic is that one can still have a sense of wonder about everyday things.  That sense of wonder kicked in again today upon reading a very nice, plain English exposition by Cobalt on why Anthropologists working with the US military can be unethical (actual, “a dick”; [...]