Anthropologia integra: Holistically Bridging Exact Sciences and Humanities (a Peach of an Initiative)

Vol.2,No.1(2011)

Jan Filipský

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Abstract
The contribution presents a brief overview of different approaches to the study of Man, conceived as a holistic bio-socio-cultural scientific discipline drawing upon natural / exact sciences and humanities, or increasingly diverging “scientific” and “non-scientific” researches, both from force of habit still termed anthropology, in the background of recent controversy sparkled by the decision of the American Anthropological Association to purge the term “science” from its long-term mission statement. Included is also a short retrospective glance at the first volume of our journal as an open publication platform of integrally conceived anthropology.

Keywords:
anthropology; integral; biological / physical; sociocultural; linguistic; archaeology; natural sciences vs. humanities
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