Anthropologists 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. The result is a robust examination of how people around the world experience weaknesses of will, which speaks to debates in both the anthropology of ethics and moral philosophy.

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
1. Trigger Warnings: Danger, Desire and Declensions of the Will in Eating Disorders Treatment
2. Three Problems with the Addiction as Akrasia Thesis That Ethnography Can Solve
3. To Live Like ‘People’: Drinking and Weakness of Will among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon
4. Prayer, Demons and Akratic Sublation
5. Troubleshooting Humans: Modelling the Pathways to Inertia, Backsliding and Moral Transgression on Indonesia’s Hypnotherapy Circuit
6. The ‘Replication’ of Caste as a Form of Collective Akrasia
7. Is Grit Irrational for Akratic Agents?
8. Relational Akrasia: Care and the Distribution of Action
Afterword. Akrasia in Its Social Context
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