Affordances and reflexivity in ethical life: An ethnographic stance

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-26

  Keane, Webb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordance; ethics; ethnography; intentionality; moral philosophy; morality; objectification; psychology; social interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897015118     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499614521721     Document Type: Article

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