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Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification (Methodology & History in Anthropology, 20),Used
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Product Description 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 specieswide 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 anthropologys ethnographic expertise. Review This is an engaging collection which is enhanced by the editors agenda and his clear and challenging statement of purpose. The notion of going beyond is important, and is well realised in his broad, scholarly, and wellargued introductiona substantial contribution to anthropological theorising about human beings as such, as that enterprise now stands.Michael Carrithers, Durham University From the Back Cover 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 specieswide 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 anthropologys ethnographic expertise. About the Author Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and directs the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He also held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice at Concordia University, Montreal, and he has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Recent publications include 'I am Dynamite': An Alternative Anthropology of Power (Routledge, 2003) and Of Orderlies and Men: Hospital Porters Achieving Wellness at Work (Carolina Academic Press, 2008).
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