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Anthropology as a natural science
1978
On the basis of materials collected by the research project System Analysis of Anthropology (SAA) the author discusses problems of the structure and relationships of biological anthropology. o (1) In the eastern, southeastern and southern European countries anthropology is strictly defined as natural science (source: conversation lexicons); also in Germany and some neighbouring countries other anthropologies, particularly the philosophical one, exist and have increased in recent years; a third group is represented by the Anglo-Saxon anthropology which comprises social and cultural as well as physical (Figure 1). The proportion of physical anthropological papers in anthropological periodical…
Before and After Science: Radcliffe-Brown, British Social Anthropology, and the Relationship Between Field Research, Ethnography, and Theory
2020
In Radcliffe-Brown’s theoretical program of social anthropology as a “natural science of society” empirically grounded and making extensive use of the “comparative method” for aims of generalization about social phenomena, the ethnographical method according to Malinowski’s principles was seen as a fundamental research tool useful not only for guaranteeing scientific reliability to the work of collecting and recording ethnographic documentation but also for empirically testing theoretical hypotheses. It was thus often supposed that ideally the latter had to orientate the selection of particular research topics before starting fieldwork and while carrying out it. In the first part of the pap…
La storia degli orientamenti teorici: una sintesi
2015
Ampia sintesi di storia dell'antropologia socioculturale dalle origini ad oggi scritta appositamente per la seconda edizione italiana di R. Robbins, Antropologia culturale. Un approccio per problemi, UTET. Il testo del capitolo è una versione significativamente rielaborata di quella pubblicata nella prima edizione del manuale. Broad synthesis of the history of socio-cultural anthropology from its origins to the present written specifically for the second Italian edition of R. Robbins, Cultural Anthropology. A problem-solving approach, UTET. The text of the chapter is a significantly revised version of that published in the first edition of the manual.
Nascita e sviluppi del concetto antropologico di cultura nei paesi di lingua tedesca
2022
Austrian and German anthropological traditions are considered in view of the influence they had on global anthropology. The chapter is built round the centrality of the anthropological notion of culture and cultural dynamics. The particularistic and relativist notion of culture is in fact believed to have emerged from in Germany from the XVIII century, where intellectuals have juxtaposed the term Kultur to Zivilisation. Within German anthropology, universalistic perspectives on culture have continued through the Nineteenth Century, as in the evolutionary approach of Gustav Klemm and Johann Jakob Bachofen. A different form of cultural universalism was introduced by Adolf Bastian with his the…