Studying Human Origins

Disciplinary History and Epistemology

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ID9361125
AuthorsR Corbey (0000-0001-9787-0480), Wil Roebroeks (0000-0002-5075-6899)
Year2001
Pages174
Publication date2001-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueStudying human origins (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherAmsterdam University Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.5117/9789053564646
OpenAlexW2150079108
ISBN9789053564646
Open LibraryOL4011570M
LanguageEN
Citations received17

This history of human origin studies covers a wide range of disciplines. This important new study analyses a number of key episodes from palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, primatology and evolutionary theory in terms of various ideas on how one should go about such reconstructions and what, if any, the uses of such historiographical exercises can be for current research in these disciplines. Their carefully argued point is that studying the history of palaeoanthropological thinking about the past can enhance the quality of current research on human origins.The main issues in the present volume are the uses of disciplinary history in terms of present-day research concerns, the relative weight of cultural and other 'external' contexts, and continuity and change in theoretical perspectives. The book's overall approach is an epistemological one. It does not, in other words, primarily address anthropological data as such, but our ways of handling such data in terms of our most fundamental, but usually quite implicit theoretical presuppositions.To download the table of contents, click on the PDF-button next to the order-button

Geography · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Anthropology · Anthropology, philosophy · Anthropology, Prehistoric · Anthropology, research · Human beings · Human beings, origin · Human evolution · Origin · Philosophy · Prehistoric Anthropology · Prehistoric peoples · Research

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