This is the first part of a series on dignity that will appear on ZA, featuring the usual collage of songs, history, documents, and short essays.
While there are treatments of “dignity” in Western philosophy, it is interesting to note the absence of the idea as a concept in the works of most anthropologists, which suggests that we are not paying as much attention as we think (or say we do) to the language, ideals, and principles of those we study, nor are we doing much to build…
