Our Common Denominator: Human Universals Revisited

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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Antweiler, Christoph

Philosophy

Berghahn Books

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.

In this book, anthropologist and geologist Christoph Antweiler shows that geology is a special, namely historical, natural science and is therefore relevant for a historically informed anthropology. He argues that we do not only need a geologically informed cultural anthropology, but conversely also an anthropologically oriented geology. A comprehensive geology must include material human culture as a fundamental geological phenomenon. In relation to cultural anthropology, the author discusses the challenge the Anthropocene poses for cultural anthropology as a traditionally micro-oriented social science. The book discusses where the blind spots lie in the highly interdisciplinary discussion. Common narratives are critically scrutinized. The author argues for the need for a new discipline: geoanthropology.

Anthropology in the Anthropocene: An Earthed Theory for Our Extended Present (Anthropocene – Humanities and Social Sciences)

Anthropology

Springer

Methoden Ethnologischer Feldforschung (Ethnologische Paperbacks) (German Edition)

Fischer, Hans

Dilger, Hansjörg

Coppens, Laura

Dietrich, Martha-cecilia

Reimer, Dietrich

Zu den Bedingungen der kulturellen Aneignung von Wissen ist zuletzt ein groaes offentliches Interesse entstanden. Ethnologinnen und Ethnologen beschaftigen sich seit Jahrzehnten mit diesem Thema. Sie kennen das Dilemma, dass die eigene Forschungspraxis oft unter Rahmenbedingungen statt?ndet, in denen koloniale und andere Formen der Ausbeutung bestehen. Sie wissen aber auch um die Bedeutung und den Wert von "Ethnologie als Alltagsressource". Die Beitrage in diesem Band untersuchen den Wert ethnologischer Forschungen fur die erforschten Gruppen und fur das Verstandnis der jeweils eigenen Gesellschaft der Forschenden.

Ethnologie Als Angewandte Wissenschaft: Das Zusammenspiel Von Theorie Und Praxis (Studien Zur Kulturkunde, 136) (German Edition)

DE VRIES

Bertels, Ursula

Fehlings, Susanne

Frauen, Wulf

Anthropologie Der Emotionen: Affektive Dynamiken in Kultur Und Gestellschaft (German Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Casimir, Michael J.

Bajwa, Marium Javaid

Bauer, Kathrin

Mental Health

Southeast Asia

Institute Of Southeast Asian Studies

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