Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification: 20 (Methodology & History in Anthropology, 20)

by NigelRapport (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2012

  $43.18

  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...