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Book SynopsisWhat is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor...
Trade Review “This is an engaging collection which is enhanced by the editor’s agenda and his clear and challenging statement of purpose. The notion of ‘going beyond’ is important, and is well realised in his broad, scholarly, and well-argued introduction…a substantial contribution to anthropological theorising about human beings as such, as that enterprise now stands.” · Michael Carrithers, Durham University
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction: Human Capacity as an Exceeding, a Going Beyond
Nigel Rapport
PART I: BEYOND THE ECONOMY
Introduction to Part I
Nigel Rapport
Chapter 1. Conversations with Eulogio: On Migration and the Building of a Life-Project in Motion
Nelson Ferguson
Chapter 2. The Limits of Liminality: Capacities for Change and Transition among Student Travellers
Vered Amit
PART II: BEYOND THE POLITY
Introduction to Part II
Nigel Rapport
Chapter 3. 'Crisis': On the Limits of European Integration and Identity in Northern Ireland
Thomas M. Wilson
Chapter 4. Making the Cosmopolitan Plea: Harold Oram's International Fund-raising in the Early Cold War
Laura Suski
PART III: BEYOND THE CLASSIFACTORY
Introduction to Part III
Nigel Rapport
Chapter 5. Money, Materiality and Imagination: Life on the Other Side of Value
Andrew Irving
Chapter 6. Acts of Entification: The Emergence of Thinghood in Social Life
Tord Larsen
PART IV: BEYOND THE BODY
Introduction to Part IV
Nigel Rapport
Chapter 7. Embodied Cognition, Communication and the Making of Place and Identity: Reflections on Fieldwork with Masons
Trevor H.J. Marchand
Chapter 8. 'Live in Fragments no Longer': Social Dance and Individual Imagination in Human Nature
Jonathan Skinner
Index
