Cultural Anthropology
A Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2199815 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert H Lowie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1936 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 301-320 |
| Publication date | 1936-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/217429 |
| OpenAlex | W2044042697 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
The tendency to separate ethnology from the natural sciences is vicious. Ethnology is simply that branch of objective knowledge which defines the spatial, temporal, and functional relations of cultural phenomena. It uniformly applies those canons of scientific logic which are consistent with its varying problems. When these are chronological, ethnology inescapably applies the procedure of geology and political history, the techniques again varying with the case in question-from textual criticism to stratigraphic determination. The complexity of ethnological data may preclude Newtonian universals, but is not inconsistent with inductively established correlations, such as are in fact persistently proclaimed but practically never demonstrated
Art · Criticism · Cultural anthropology · Epistemology · Ethnology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Problem of universals · Sociology · Anthropology · Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Study and Philosophy of Religion
Un peritaje antropológico en memoria social
Archaeological Analysis and Concepts of Causality
Traditional Media and Culture
History and Science in Anthropology
On plantations and patterns
Culture-Bearing Units and the Units of Culture
Reflections on the Nature of Cultural Distributions and the Units of Culture Problem
The Superorganic
Cultural Causality and Law
Kroeber's "Configurations of Culture Growth"2
The Uto-aztecan System of Kinship Terminology
Contemporary issues and challenges for comparativists
A 'Scientific Revolution
Disciplining Culture
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1941 - 2021 (81) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |