Ethical condition essays on action, person, and value

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-350) and index.

The ethical condition -- Virgin marriage and the autonomy of women in Mayotte -- Taboo as cultural practice among Malagasy speakers -- The past imperfect : remembering as moral practice -- The anthropology of religion and the quarrel between poetry and philosophy -- Just anger : scenarios of indignation in Botswana and Madagascar / coauthored by Jacqueline Solway -- Rheumatic irony : questions of agency and self-deception as refracted through the art of living with spirits -- On catching up with oneself : learning to know that one means what one does -- Sacrifice and the problem of beginning : reflections from Sakalava mythopraxis -- Value and virtue -- Toward an ethics of the act -- Ethics out of the ordinary -- The value of (performative) acts -- The continuous and discontinuous person : two dimensions of ethical life.