[PDF] Human Universals Cultures And Governments eBook

Author : Donald Brown
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780070082090

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This book explores physical and behavioral characteristics that can be considered universal among all cultures, all people. It presents cases demonstrating universals, looks at the history of the study of universals, and presents an interesting study of a hypothetical tribe, The Universal People.

Author : Christoph Antweiler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785330942

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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.

Author : Ikram Ahmed Elsherif
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2021-01-11
Category :
ISBN : 1527564398

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Informed by the anthropological research of Professor Donald E. Brown on human universals, this book compiles 10 articles exploring the representation of common human cultural practices and concerns in literature, cinema and language. The book as a whole demonstrates not only that Brown’s human universals are shared by different cultures, but most importantly that they have the potential to form a basis for inter- and intra-cultural communication and consolidation, bridging gaps of misinformation and miscommunication, both spatial and temporal. The contributors are Egyptian scholars who cross temporal and spatial boundaries and borders from Africa and the Middle East to Asia, Europe and the Americas, and dive deep into the heart of the shared human universals of myth, folklore and rituals, dreams, trauma, cultural beliefs, search for identity, language, translation and communication. They bring their own unique perspectives to the investigation of how shared human practices and concerns seep through the porous boundaries of different cultures and into a variety of creative and practical genres of fiction, drama, autobiography, cinema and media translation. Their research is interdisciplinary, informed by anthropological, social, psychological, linguistic and cultural theory, and thus offers a multi-faceted and multi-layered view of the human experience.

Author : Federico Lenzerini
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199664285

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International human rights law was originally focused on universal individual rights. This book examines the developments which have seen it change to a multi-cultural approach, one more sensitive to the cultures of the people directly affected by them. It argues that this can provide benefits, but that aspects of universalism must be retained.

Author : Gisela Trommsdorff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1107014255

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This volume presents multidisciplinary perspectives on the role of cultural values and religious beliefs in adolescent development.

Author : Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815715633

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This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights.

Author : Kwasi Wiredu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253210807

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"Wiredu's discussion of culturally defined values and concepts, as well as his attention to such timely issues as human rights, makes this book invaluable interdisciplinary reading." —D. A. Masolo Ghanaian philosopher Kwasi Wiredu confronts the paradox that while Western cultures recoil from claims of universality, previously colonized peoples, seeking to redefine their identities, insist on cultural particularities. Wiredu asserts that universals, rightly conceived on the basis of our common biological identity, are not incompatible with cultural particularities and, in fact, are what make intercultural communication possible. Drawing on aspects of Akan thought that appear to diverge from Western conceptions in the areas of ethics and metaphysics, Wiredu calls for a just reappraisal of these disparities, free of thought patterns corrupted by a colonial mentality. Wiredu's exposition of the principles of African traditional philosophy is not purely theoretical; he shows how certain aspects of African political thought may be applied to the practical resolution of some of Africa's most pressing problems.