Our Common Denominator: Human Universals Revisited (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781785338243)

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.

Author: Christoph Antweiler
ISBN-10: 1785338242
ISBN-13: 9781785338243
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2018
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d