Our Common Denominator : : Human Universals Revisited / / Christoph Antweiler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Antweiler, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Humankind: Current Societal Debates -- Chapter 2 A World of Cultures: Their Differences and Likenesses -- Chapter 3 Cultures and Human Nature: Human Beings Are Biologically Cultural -- Chapter 4 Universals: Examples from Several Realms -- Chapter 5 Methods: Deduction, Case Studies, and Comparison -- Chapter 6 Taxonomy: The Forms, Levels, and Depth of Universals -- Chapter 7 Toward Explanation: Why Do Universals Exist? -- Chapter 8 Critical Positions: Arguments against Universalism -- Chapter 9 Synthesis: Human Universals and Human Sciences -- Bibliography -- Index