Freedom in the code: The anthropology of (double) morality
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | University of Cambridge, UK |
| ANO | 2015 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Anthropological Theory |
| ISSN | 1463-4996 |
| E-ISSN | 1741-2641 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1463499614568498 |
| CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
This essay engages with current debates in the anthropology of ethics regarding the relationship between freedom and moral codes. By describing a particular understanding of the Italian concept of doppia morale (double morality) amongst LGBTQ activists in Bologna, and applying it to a number of examples, I show how it is possible to relate to moral codes or injunctions in such a way as to allow for their betrayal in certain circumstances. This claim – that one may subscribe to a code in a manner that allows for it to be broken – supports another that is foundational to some variants of the anthropology of ethics: that freedom does not lie merely in the absence of rules.