Being Human
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anthropology
Author_Anna L. Peterson
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cultural studies
culture
ecofeminism
ecology
environmental
environmental ethics
environmentalism
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ethical anthropology
ethics
evolution
exceptionalism
feminist
human experience
human nature
humanity
morals
native american
natural world
nature
non human
non human nature
nonhuman animals
western tradition
western world
Product details
- ISBN 9780520226555
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2001
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Being Human examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. Anna Peterson proposes an "ethical anthropology" that examines how ideas of nature and humanity are bound together in ways that shape the very foundations of cultures. Peterson discusses mainstream Western understandings of what it means to be human, as well as alternatives to these perspectives, and suggests that the construction of a compelling, coherent environmental ethics will revise our ideas not only about nature but also about what it means to be human.
Anna L. Peterson is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Florida and author of Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador's Civil War (1997) and co-editor of the forthcoming Christianity, Social and and Globalization in the Americas(2001), with Manuel Vasquez and Philip Williams.
