Negative Strategies: An Afterword

Abstract

Between them, the collected articles of this special issue offer a challenging approach to an important arena of anthropological enquiry. Stimulated by recent debate in the anthropology of ethics, they question the way in which negative evaluations are often portrayed as though what actors experience as assaults on values, livelihoods and persons also render such events as somehow less than viable vectors of the social life that is ordinarily the anthropologist’s subject matter. While the obj..