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The Perspective for Fundamental Research in Anthropology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Gene Weltfish
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I propose to treat this broad topic in terms of three main questions:

  1. 1. The shift in emphasis in anthropological research from culture-history-culture philosophy to “social engineering”,

  2. 2. The question of whether these two types of emphasis are related or not, and if so in what manner, and

  3. 3. The implications of anthropology for other fields of knowledge.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , January 1956 , pp. 63 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © 1956, The Williams & Wilkins Company

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Footnotes

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Read at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Detroit, Mich., Dec. 28, 1954.

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