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