Cargando…

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rapport, Nigel, 1956- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Colección:Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 20.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.