Human Nature and Social Life
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Human Nature and Social Life

Perspectives on Extended Sociality

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Human Nature and Social Life

Perspectives on Extended Sociality

About this book

What distinguishes humans from nonhuman 'others'? And how do these distinctions shape human sociality and the ways that humans relate to their others? Human Nature and Social Life brings together a collection of articles by prominent anthropologists to address these questions. The articles show how the fundamentally social nature of humans results in an extension of sociality to virtual, semiotic-material and nonhuman spheres, with humans therefore becoming part of 'extended socialities'. However, as the book's contributors demonstrate, human distinctness significantly bears upon these extended socialities, and the manner in which humans partake in them. Taking an ethnographic approach to its subject, this book demonstrates the continued value of studying the specificities of the human condition, and sets itself as a counterweight to current refutations of human exceptionalism.

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Yes, you can access Human Nature and Social Life by Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme,Kenneth Sillander in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The Evanescence of Experience and How to Capture It
  11. 2 The Mirror of the Material
  12. 3 Human at Risk
  13. 4 Connectedness through Separation
  14. 5 Egalitarian and Non-Egalitarian Sociality
  15. 6 Peaceful Sociality
  16. 7 The Point of No Return
  17. 8 Sociality, Socialities and Sociality as a Causal Force
  18. 9 Monism, Dualism and Participant Observation
  19. 10 Kinship Particularism and the Project of Anthropological Comparison
  20. Afterword: Extensions
  21. References
  22. Index