The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology Paperback
by William Adams
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Few anthropologists have made any attempts to explore their own discipline's prehistory or to have realized its importance.
William Adams attempts to rectify this myopic self-awareness by applying anthropology's own tools to itself while uncovering the discipline's debt to earlier thinkers.
Adams recognizes that many ideas which were anticipated in antiquity have had a lasting influence on anthropological models in particular.
Adams has chosen five philosophical currents whose influences have been, and continue to be, very widespread, particularly in North American anthropology: progressivism, primitivism, natural law, German idealism, and 'Indianology'.
This work serves as the basis for the explanation of the true historical and philosophical underpinnings of anthropology and its goals.
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- Pages:480 pages, bibliography
- Publisher:Centre for the Study of Language & Information
- Publication Date:01/06/1998
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- ISBN:9781575861289
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:480 pages, bibliography
- Publisher:Centre for the Study of Language & Information
- Publication Date:01/06/1998
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- ISBN:9781575861289
