The History of Anthropology Revisited-A Byzantine Viewpoint

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2452144
AutoresMichael A Hoffman (University of Virginia, autor de correspondencia)
Año1973
Volumen75
Número5
Páginas1347-1357
Fecha de publicación1973-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/aa.1973.75.5.02a00110
OpenAlexW2054423026
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas10

This article maintains that an unwarranted extension ofour ideas about the Western European Medieval world has led to several problems in many recent treatments of the historical emergence ofanthropological inquiry. Utilizing Byzantine sources, it suggests that the postulated Medieval break in the Western intellectual tradition is non-existent and the result of an over-emphasis on Western European developments at the expense of the larger socio-cultuml milieu which constitutes the basis of that tradition. The broader anthropological position that emerges from this study involves a realization that interest in cross-cultural behavior is basic to at least some individuals in every society and takes on added significance in state-level systems

Byzantine architecture · Epistemology · European union · Extension (predicate logic · Position (finance · Realization (probability · Sociology · State (computer science · Western europe · Anthropology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · Computer Science · History · Philosophy