Our Capacity to Learn "Could there possibly be a more difficult book out there to read? I don't understand anything I just read!" These were the thoughts circulating through my mind each time I picked up Nussbaum's "Cultivating Humanity." In this paper I am going to attempt to make clearer Nussbau...
Some say that their people are on the road to self-destruction because of their key values and beliefs, other say they still have along way to go; regardless, the society is filled with rich, sometimes shocking, customs and strange magical rituals that have fascinated anthropologists for years. ... Competition is especially emphasized during the rights of passage (or the transition time between childhood and adulthood) Most people are sent to a training group to learn their new human rights and duties before receiving their rights of passage. ...
