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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816112503321

Titolo

Human nature as capacity : transcending discourse and classification / / edited by Nigel Rapport

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010

ISBN

0-85745-834-5

1-282-62719-8

9786612627194

1-84545-815-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

Methodology and history in anthropology ; ; v. 20

Altri autori (Persone)

RapportNigel <1956->

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Anthropology - Philosophy

Human behavior - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 suffer