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Contents

Introduction
William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas

PART I: EVIL AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Chapter 1. From Theodicy to Homodicy: Evil as an Anthropological Problem
Thomas Csordas

Chapter 2. On the Concept of “Evil” in Anthropological Analyses and Political Violence
Byron Good

PART II: EVIL AND SUFFERING

Chapter 3. Speak No Evil: Inversion and Evasion in Indonesia
Andrew Beatty

Chapter 4. Mother Evil in Hell Valley: A Creole Transvalorisation of Evil in Trinidad
Roland Littlewood

Chapter 5. Satan on the Old Kent Road: Articulations of Evil in a Pentecostal Diaspora
Simon Coleman

Chapter 6. The Transformation of Evil in Nepal
David Gellner

Chapter 7. Radical Evil and the Notion of Conscience: A Buddhist Meditation on Christian Soteriology
Gananath Obeyesekere

Chapter 8. Are Spirits Satanic? The Ambiguity of Evil in Niger
Adeline Masqulier

PART III: EVIL AND VIOLENCE

Chapter 9. Engaging Evil and Excess in Palestine / Israel
Julie Peteet

Chapter 10. The Violence of Evil: A Biocultural Approach to Violence, Memory, and Pain
Ventura Perez

Chapter 11. The Intention of Evil: Asram in Asante
William C. Olsen

Chapter 12. Monsters, Sadists, and the Unspectacular Torture Experience
Nerina Weiss

Afterword
David Parkin
 

Engaging Evil

A Moral Anthropology

Edited by William C. Olsen and Thomas J. Csordas
Afterword by David Parkin

322 pages, index

ISBN  978-1-78920-213-7 Hb Published (May 2019)

eISBN 978-1-78920-214-4 eBook