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Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification
Nigel Rapport (Ed.)
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Paperback. 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.. Series: Methodolgy & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352. Transcending Discourse and Classification. Series: Methodolgy & History in Anthropology. 250 pages, black & white illustrations. 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. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMP. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight: 346.
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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Methodolgy & History in Anthropology
Condition
New
Weight
352g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857458100
SKU
V9780857458100
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About Nigel Rapport (Ed.)
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification
“This is an engaging collection which is enhanced by the editor’s agenda and his clear and challenging statement of purpose. The notion of ‘going beyond’ is important, and is well realised in his broad, scholarly, and well-argued introduction…a substantial contribution to anthropological theorising about human beings as such, as that enterprise now stands.” · Michael Carrithers, Durham University