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Ethics & Social Change: Economy, Religion, and Moral Transformation

While scholars might once have been inclined to think of the economy as a driver of ethical transformation and religion as a force for the preservation of traditional moral ideas and practices, it has become clear that the relation between religious and economic dimensions of moral change is much more complex and multi-dimensional. This interdisciplinary […]

Malinowski and the Argonauts: a hundred years of economic anthropology and the ethnographic method

LSE Houghton Street, London

Centenary workshop – call for papers The publication in 1922 of Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific inaugurated a golden age in social anthropology. Recent revisionist views notwithstanding, it is widely regarded as inaugurating modern ethnographic methods, as well as being a landmark for the sub-field later known as economic anthropology. Malinowski’s analysis of […]

Book Forum – Making Better Lives

To celebrate the publication of the Centre Coordinator Johannes Lenhard’s book, Making Better Lives: Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among people sleeping rough in Paris, we will host an online book forum on Wednesday June 8th. The discussion will be kicked off by short contributions from Michele Lancione (Torino), Luisa Schneider (Amsterdam), Chris Herring (Harvard/UCAL) and […]