Description: A History of Anthropology as a Holistic ScienceAuthor(s): Glynn Custred Format: Hardback Publisher: Lexington Books, United States Imprint: Lexington Books ISBN-13: 9781498507639, 978-1498507639 Synopsis A History of Anthropology as a Holistic Science defends the holistic scientific approach 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 arose within 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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Book Title: A History of Anthropology as a Holistic Science
Number of Pages: 268 Pages
Publication Name: A History of Anthropology As a Holistic Science
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books
Item Height: 238 mm
Subject: Sociology, Science, Anthropology, History
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 576 g
Author: Glynn Custred
Item Width: 162 mm
Format: Hardcover
