A History of Anthropology as a Holistic Science
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498507653 (ISBN)
A History of Anthropology as a Holistic Science defends the holistic scientificapproach by examining its history, which is in part a story of adventure, and its sound philosophical foundation. It shows that activism and the holistic scientific approach need not compete with one another. This book discusses how anthropology developed in the nineteenth century during what has been called the Second Scientific Revolution. It emerged in the United States in its holistic four field form from the confluence of four lines of inquiry: the British, the French, the German, and the American. As the discipline grew and became more specialized, a tendency of divergence set in that weakened its holistic appeal. Beginning in the 1960s a new movement arosewithin the discipline which called for abandoning science as anthropology’s mission in order to convert into an instrument of social change; a redefinition which weakens its effectiveness as a way of understanding humankind, and which threatens to discredit the discipline.
Glynn Custred is professor emeritus of anthropology at California State University, East Bay.
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Second Scientific Revolution
Chapter 2: European Origins in an Age of Science
Chapter 3: One Discipline, Three Ways
Chapter 4: American Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 5: What is Science?
Chapter 6: Converging Sciences
Chapter 7: American Anthropology and the Formation of the Scientific Holistic Approach
Chapter 8: Physical Anthropology
Chapter 9: Archeology
Chapter 10: Sociocultural Anthropology
Chapter 11: The Theoretical Diversity of Sociocultural Anthropology
Chapter 12: Anthropology as Social Science
Chapter 13: Anthropology and the Humanities
Chapter 14: Linguistic Anthropology
Chapter 15: Culture Areas: The Case of the Central Andes
Chapter 16: An Andean Ethnographic Experience
Epilogue: A Holistic Science
Bibliography
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.06.2016 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 BW Illustration, 3 Tables |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 404 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781498507653 / 9781498507653 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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