From the Temptation for Purity to the Necessity of Unity

The Anthropological Sciences Put to the Test of Interdisciplinarity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5111024
AutoresFrank Alvarez-Pereyre (autor de correspondencia)
Año1992
Volumen40
Número159
Páginas95-135
Fecha de publicación1992-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiogenes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0392-1921 • E-ISSN: 1467-7695
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/039219219204015908
OpenAlexW1980235994
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas25

All scientific disciplines go through periods of self-analysis. However, this analysis often takes place as if inside a closed arena, from which it is difficult to gain a long view. Instead, in hopes of identifying the properties that define it, each discipline examines its own features in a mirror that it holds up to itself.Yet there are other times, perhaps less frequent, when these self-evaluations are accompanied by an inquiry into the extent to which the discipline's intellectual characteristics are shaped by its relationship to other disciplines

Discipline · Epistemology · Social science · Sociology · Temptation · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology