History of Anthropology As a Holistic Science

A History of Anthropology as a Holistic Science discusses the four fields of anthropology as a holistic science and the feasibility of such an approach through an examination of its history and its philosophical foundation. It elucidates the 1960s movement that threatens to discredit the discipline as an effective way of understanding humankind.

List of contents

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

About the author

Glynn Custred is professor emeritus of anthropology at California State University, East Bay.

Product details

• Authors: Glynn Custred, Custred Glynn
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498507653
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0765-3
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); South America, Sociology, History of Ideas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SCIENCE / History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Sociology: customs & traditions, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, History of Science, Social and cultural history, Western philosophy from c 1800, Social and cultural anthropology, History of the Americas