What it means to be human is the key question that philosophers, writers, theologians and artists have struggled with through the ages. Beneath it lie the problematic questions what is life and what is the boundary between life and non-life. In 1943 Erwin Schr dinger posed the profoundly interesting boundary question 'How can the events in space and time that take place within the boundaries of a living organism be accounted for by physics and…
Narratives of prehistory are foundational in establishing what we take ourselves to be. All our notions of identity and difference are articulated in the stories we tell ourselves about where we come from, how we got here and what makes us different from apes and other animals. Our origin stories are deeply intertwined with stories we tell about the emergence of modernity, what we mean by modernity, and where, why and how it was brought…
Review(s) of: The collectors of lost souls: Turning kuru scientists into whitemen, by Warwick Anderson, (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008).
