Glynn Custred

A History of Anthropology as a Holistic Science (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498507646
• Artikelnr.: 45483380

Autorenporträt

By Glynn Custred

Inhaltsangabe

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