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The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes, 86
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Anthropologists claim to have made mankind aware of its own
prehistory and its importance to human self-understanding. Yet,
anthropologists seem hardly to have discovered their own
discipline's prehistory or to have realized its importance. William
Y. Adams attempts to rectify this myopic self-awareness by applying
anthropology's own tools on itself and uncovering the discipline's
debt to earlier thinkers.
Like most anthropologists, Adams had previously accepted the
premise that anthropology's intellectual roots go back no further
than the moral philosophy of the Enlightenment, or perhaps at the
earliest to the humanism of the Renaissance. In this volume, Adams
recognizes that many good ideas were anticipated in antiquity and
that these ideas have had a lasting influence on anthropological
models in particular. He has chosen five philosophical currents
whose influence has been, and is, very widespread, particularly in
North American anthropology: progressivism, primitivism, natural
law, German idealism, and "Indianology." He argues that the
influences of these currents in North American anthropology occur
in a unique combination that is not found in the anthropologies of
other countries. Without neglecting the anthropologies of other
countries, this work serves as the basis for the explanation of the
true historical and philosophical underpinnings of anthropology and
its goals.
General
Imprint: |
Centre for the Study of Language & Information
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes, 86 |
Release date: |
November 1998 |
First published: |
November 1998 |
Authors: |
William Y. Adams
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Dimensions: |
228 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
480 |
Edition: |
Annotated edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-57586-128-9 |
Categories: |
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Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Anthropology >
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LSN: |
1-57586-128-3 |
Barcode: |
9781575861289 |
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