Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification (Methodology and History in Anthropology, Band 20)

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9781845456375: Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification (Methodology and History in Anthropology, Band 20)
ISBN 10: 1845456378 ISBN 13: 9781845456375
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature - "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel this and want this" - but in terms of species-wide capacities: capabilities for action and imagination, liabilities for suffering and cruelty. The contributors approach "the human" with an awareness of these complexities and particularities, rendering this volume unique in its ability to build on anthropology's ethnographic expertise.

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Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and directs the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He also held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice at Concordia University, Montreal, and he has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Recent publications include 'I am Dynamite': An Alternative Anthropology of Power (Routledge, 2003) and Of Orderlies and Men: Hospital Porters Achieving Wellness at Work (Carolina Academic Press, 2008).

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What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel this and want this" but in terms of species-wide capacities: capabilities for action and imagination, liabilities for suffering and cruelty. The contributors approach "the human" with an awareness of these complexities and particularities, rendering this volume unique in its ability to build on anthropology s ethnographic expertise.

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845456378
ISBN 13 
9781845456375
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Bibliothekseinband
Anzahl der Seiten
250
Herausgeber
Rapport Nigel
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