Our Common Denominator

<p style=margin-left:7.5pt;> 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.</p>