Empiricism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22367641 |
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| Authors | Danilyn Rutherford (0000-0001-9209-3336, University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-9 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1938 |
| OpenAlex | W4245221438 |
| ISBN | 9781118924396 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Empiricism is not a word that cultural anthropologists have used with great frequency. Yet a distinctive form of empiricism has characterized their scholarship since the subfield's earliest days. Using David Hume's version of empiricism as a point of comparison, the entry considers the empirical approaches taken at three moments in the subfield's history: one marked by Franz Boas's invention of the scientific concept of culture; another heralded by the publication of James Clifford and George Marcus's edited collection Writing Culture (1986); and the last inaugurated by the rise of science studies, a branch of scholarship within the social sciences and humanities that shows how facts can be both constructed and empirically real
Art history · Empiricism · Epistemology · Political science · Scholarship · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Writing Culture
Righteous Dopefiend
How Forests Think
Not Quite Shamans
The Interpretation of Cultures
Adieu, Culture
Zeno and the Art of Anthropology
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Body Multiple
The Cooking of History
Franz Boas and the Culture Concept in Historical Perspective1
"Do We Need a"Superorganic
Kinky Empiricism
"Cultural" Concepts and the Language-Culture Nexus
| Highly cited | No |
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