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A History of Anthropology As a Holistic Science
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2016
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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.
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2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-0763-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-0764-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
255
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Table of Contents No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: The Second Scientific Revolution No access Pages 1 - 22
Chapter Two: European Origins in an Age of Science No access Pages 23 - 34
Chapter Three: One Discipline, Three Ways No access Pages 35 - 42
Chapter Four: American Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century No access Pages 43 - 56
Chapter Five: What is Science? No access Pages 57 - 72
Chapter Six: Converging Sciences No access Pages 73 - 88
Chapter Seven: American Anthropology and the Formation of the Scientific Holistic Approach No access Pages 89 - 94
Chapter Eight: Physical Anthropology No access Pages 95 - 106
Chapter Nine: Archaeology No access Pages 107 - 116
Chapter Ten: Sociocultural Anthropology No access Pages 117 - 134
Chapter Eleven: The Theoretical Diversity of Sociocultural Anthropology No access Pages 135 - 146
Chapter Twelve: Anthropology as Social Science No access Pages 147 - 158
Chapter Thirteen: Anthropology and the Humanities No access Pages 159 - 178
Chapter Fourteen: Linguistic Anthropology No access Pages 179 - 184
Chapter Fifteen: Culture Areas No access Pages 185 - 222
Chapter Sixteen: An Andean Ethnographic Experience No access Pages 223 - 236
