Against Better Judgment

Against Better JudgmentAnthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend.

including Carol Moseley Braun

when Evan learns of his father’s debts

Addresses the most important question in developmental politics – how can a developing country emerge from a historical cycle of underdevelopment

letting us see how he struggled forward to new ways of thinking how it is that "language as language" can be thought

Women smallholder farmers in this region have generally had to seek land in the interstices of large male-owned land holdings

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the future trends in research requirements for the sustainability of the tea industry are also briefly explained

“Green is the plane-tree in the square

The book highlights similarities and differences between the activists in both movements and between the movements themselves

This collection is drawn from the seventh Libraries Without Walls Conference

Section One of the text focuses on the background and development of the original EBPI model

the Romani collective memory of the genocide