Human nature as capacity : transcending discourse and classification

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.
Subjects:
Anthropology > Philosophy.
Human behavior > Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Anthropology > Philosophy
Human behavior > Philosophy
Menselijke natuur.
Gedrag.
Antropologische aspecten.
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I
  • Beyond the Economy; Introduction to Part I; Chapter 1
  • Conversations With Eulogio; Chapter 2
  • The Limits of Liminality; Part II
  • Beyond the Polity; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 3
  • Crisis; Chapter 4- Making the Cosmopolitan Plea; Part III
  • Beyond the Classificatory; Introduction to Part III; Chapter 5
  • Money, Materiality and Imagination; Chapter 6
  • Acts of Entification; Part IV
  • Beyond the Body; Introduction to Part IV.
  • Chapter 7
  • Embodied Cognition, Communication and the Making of Place and IdentityChapter 8
  • 'Live in Fragments No Longer'; Index.

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