Human nature as capacity : transcending discourse and classification /

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...

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Other Authors: Rapport, Nigel, 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Series:Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 20.
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