Human Nature and Social Life: Perspectives on Extended by Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme,Kenneth Sillander PDF

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By Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme,Kenneth Sillander

What distinguishes people from nonhuman 'others'? and the way do those differences form human sociality and the ways in which people relate to their others? Human Nature and Social existence brings jointly a suite of articles by way of well-known anthropologists to deal with those questions. The articles convey how the essentially social nature of people ends up in an extension of sociality to digital, semiotic-material and nonhuman spheres, with people for this reason turning into a part of 'extended socialities'. in spite of the fact that, because the book's participants show, human distinctness considerably bears upon those prolonged socialities, and the way during which people partake in them. Taking an ethnographic method of its topic, this booklet demonstrates the ongoing price of learning the specificities of the human , and units itself as a counterweight to present refutations of human exceptionalism.

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