Our Common Denominator: Human Universals Revisited

By Christoph Antweiler

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785338242
• ISBN13: 9781785338243
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"