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Human Nature as Capacity - Transcending Discourse and Classification (Hardcover): Nigel Rapport

Human Nature as Capacity - Transcending Discourse and Classification (Hardcover)

Nigel Rapport

Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology

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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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Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology
Release date: March 2010
First published: March 2010
Editors: Nigel Rapport
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 978-1-84545-637-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
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LSN: 1-84545-637-8
Barcode: 9781845456375

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