Our Common Denominator

Human Universals Revisited

AvChristoph Antweiler

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals-that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of these cross-cultural commonalities for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy. The question presented here is how anthropology can help us approach humanity in its entirety, understanding the world less as a globe, with an emphasis on differences, but as a planet, from a vantage point open to commonalities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt:658 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:364
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781785330933

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Christoph Antweiler is an anthropologist and Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, London and serves on the advisory board of the Humboldt Forum, Berlin.

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"Antweiler's is a quite meticulous and lucid study of human universals in the discipline of anthropology after more than a century of neglect in favor of the particularistic, relativist study of human cultures through the method of ethnography. His review is comprehensive and searching." Choice"...as a clarion call to expand our anthropological minds to include more cultural commonalities, as well as for greater intellectual exchange between not only anthropologists working in disparate areas but also anthropologists and practitioners of other disciplines, Antweiler's endeavour succeeds skillfully." JASO

Innehållsförteckning

List of TablesPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Humankind: Current Societal DebatesChapter 2. A World of Cultures: Their Differences and LikenessesChapter 3. Cultures and Human Nature: Human Beings are biologically CulturalChapter 4. Universals: Examples from Several RealmsChapter 5. Methods: Deduction, Case Studies and ComparisonChapter 6. Taxonomy: The Forms, Levels and Depth of UniversalsChapter 7. Toward Explanation: Why do Universals exist?Chapter 8. Critical Positions: Arguments against UniversalismChapter 9. Synthesis: Human Universals and the Human SciencesBibliographyIndex