Studying human origins : disciplinary history and epistemology
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Studying human origins : disciplinary history and epistemology
（Amsterdam archaeological studies, 6）
Amsterdam University Press, c2001
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"This publication was funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), PIONIER-grant030-28-375."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-174)
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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.
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