Review of “Humanidad. Categoría o condición. Un viaje antropológico”, by Montserrat Ventura, Josep Lluís Mateo and Montserrat Clua
<p class="Maintext">The book "Humanity. Category or condition An anthropological journey” represents a journey on the concepts of humanity and the self based on cases taken from genetics and kinship, ethnohistory and ethnology. Drawing on the concept of Descola's “nature on...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Perifèria: Revista de Recerca i Formació en Antropologia |
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| Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/periferia/article/view/710 |
| Summary: | <p class="Maintext">The book "Humanity. Category or condition An anthropological journey” represents a journey on the concepts of humanity and the self based on cases taken from genetics and kinship, ethnohistory and ethnology. Drawing on the concept of Descola's “nature ontologies”, the book illustrates the difficulties of applying a single vision on the nature of human nature and the rich variety of ways of conceiving humanity.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1885-8996 |