The Concept of Culture: bioculturology and evolutionary social sciences

Vol.1,No.1(2010)

Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the current state of the concept of culture in anthropology in the context of the crisis both anthropology, as a holistic science of humans, and culture, as a key epistemological tool in anthropology, now face. Special attention is devoted to the analysis of theories of culture in the framework of evolutionary social sciences. Author discusses bioculturology as a potential bridge connecting science and social sciences together with a regard to evolutionary theories of culture that are subject to a certain controversy. In the conclusion the author formulates a thesis that the controversy of evolutionary theories of culture has its origin in the history of the terms “culture” and “nature”.

Keywords:
bioculturology; culture; anthropology; evolutionary social sciences
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