Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xxiii
5. One / The Ethical Condition 1
6. Two / Virgin Marriage and the Autonomy of Women in Mayotte 40
7. Three / Taboo as Cultural Practice among Malagasy Speakers 59
8. Four / The Past Imperfect: Remembering as Moral Practice 86
9. Five / The Anthropology of Religion and the Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy 105
10. Six / Just Anger: Scenarios of Indignation in Botswana and Madagascar 128
11. Seven / Rheumatic Irony: Questions of Agency and Self-Deception as Refracted Through the Art of Living with Spirits 150
12. Eight / On Catching Up with Oneself: Learning to Know That One Means What One Does 171
13. Nine / Sacrifice and the Problem of Beginning: Reflections from Sakalava Mythopraxis 189
14. Ten / Value and Virtue 214
15. Eleven / Toward an Ethics of the Act 242
16. Twelve / Ethics Out of the Ordinary 267
17. Thirteen / The Value of (Performative) Acts 282
18. Fourteen / The Continuous and Discontinuous Person: Two Dimensions of Ethical Life 302
19. References 329
20. Index 351