Humanity's Last Stand Mark Shuller

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Beyond Borders: An Anthropological Examination of our World In a world marked by communities, states, and countries all over the globe facing unprecedented challenges with seemingly no connection to each other, ‘Humanity’s Last Stand’ by Mark Schuller is a crucial examination of the multifaceted crises we face today. Through exploring anthropological imagination, radical empathy, and its potential to inspire solidarity movements, this paper aims to highlight how anthropology can create a more equitable, humane, and sustainable future. In order to understand how viewing our surroundings through an anthropological lens is beneficial to our understanding of the challenges in the world, we first need to understand what an anthropological lens is. Anthropologists view the world through a unique perspective of anthropological data, approaches, and theories. It is this lens that allows us to highlight points of connection between issues across different regions and cultures that often …show more content…

An especially important aspect of radical empathy is being able to see individuals and communities portrayed as outliers or enemies as humans – we need to be able to sympathize with emotions and struggles for justice that don’t directly impact our communities. This sentiment is shared by Schuller who states, “Radical empathy requires humanizing accounts of tragedy, so that regardless of the language people speak, the clothes they wear, their family structures, or the gods they worship (or not), their human loss is felt just as deeply as that of people who look and think like us, whoever that us is.” (page

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