In a time of intellectual uncertainty, the question of how we know what we do about human lives becomes ever more pressing. The essays collated in this volume argue that anthropology can be used to acknowledge, explore and interpret divergence and ideological conflict over human meaning.

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK.Huon Wardle is Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK.

List of ContributorsPreface: The 'Star' Consortium and the ASA Decennial ConferenceIntroduction: Moral Social Relations as Methodology and Everyday PracticeNigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews, UK) and Huon Wardle (University of St. Andrews, UK)1. After Sympathy, a QuestionAnne Line Dalsgård (Aarhus University, Denmark)2. His Father Came to Him in His Sleep: An Essay on Enlightenment, Mortalities and Immortalities in IcelandArnar Anason (University of Aberdeen, UK)3. On 'Bad Mind': Orienting Sentiments in Jamaican Street LifeHuon Wardle (University of St Andrews, UK)4. Westermarck, Moral Relativity and Ethical BehaviourDavid Shankland (University of Bristol, UK)5. Saving Sympathy: Adam Smith, Morality, Law and CommerceDiane Austin-Broos (University of Sydney, Australia)6. 'Can We Have Our Nature/Culture Dichotomy Back, Please'?Nigel Clark (Lancaster University, UK), Rupert Stasch (University of Cambridge, UK) and Jon Bialecki, (Lancaster University, UK)7. Who Are We to Judge? Two Metalogues on MoralityRonald Stade (University of Malmo, Sweden)8. 'We Are All Human': Cosmopolitanism as a Radically Political, Moral ProjectElisabeth Kirtsoglou (Durham University, UK)9. Transference and Cosmopolitan Politesse: Coming to Terms with the Distorted, 'Tragic' Quality of Social Relations between Individual Human BeingsNigel Rapport (University of St Andrews, UK)10. Afterword: Becoming Enlightened About RelationsMarilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge, UK)Index