A history of anthropology as a holistic science /
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| Author / Creator: | Custred, Glynn (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology), author. |
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016] ©2016 |
| Description: | xii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11013635 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781498507639 1498507638 9781498507646 9781498507653 1498507654 1498507646 |
