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Equality -- Cross-cultural studies.
Human beings -- Cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural studies.
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The invention of humanity : equality and cultural difference in world history / Siep Stuurman.
by
Stuurman, Siep.
Harvard University Press, 2017.
Call #:
305 S937i
Subjects
Equality
--
Cross-cultural
studies
.
Human
beings
--
Cross-cultural
studies
.
Cross-cultural
studies
.
ISBN:
9780674971967 (alkaline paper)
Alternate title:
Equality and cultural difference in world history
Description:
665 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-646) and index.
Summary:
"For much of history, strangers were routinely classified as barbarians and inferiors, seldom as fellow
human
beings
. The notion of a common humanity was counterintuitive and thus had to be invented. Siep Stuurman traces evolving ideas of
human
equality and difference across continents and civilizations from ancient times to the present. Despite humans’ deeply ingrained bias against strangers, migration and cultural blending have shaped
human
experience from the earliest times. As travelers crossed frontiers and came into contact with unfamiliar peoples and customs, frontier experiences generated not only hostility but also empathy and understanding. Empires sought to civilize their “barbarians,” but in all historical eras critics of empire were able to imagine how the subjected peoples made short shrift of imperial arrogance. Drawing on the views of a global mix of thinkers—Homer, Confucius, Herodotus, the medieval Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun, the Haitian writer Antenor Firmin, the Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal, and more—The Invention of Humanity surveys the great civilizational frontiers of history, from the interaction of nomadic and sedentary societies in ancient Eurasia and Africa, to Europeans’ first encounters with the indigenous peoples of the New World, to the Enlightenment invention of universal “modern equality.” Against a backdrop of two millennia of thinking about common humanity and equality, Stuurman concludes with a discussion of present-day debates about
human
rights and the “clash of civilizations.” --From publisher.
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