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Eric Lawrence Gans (born August 21, 1941) is an American philosophical anthropologist and literary theorist. Gans established a human science called generative anthropology (GA), which is based on the hypothesis that representation, language—insofar as it is the most fundamental form of representation [1] —and the human species—insofar as it is defined against other animal species by its ...
Current Applications is an open-access section of Current Anthropology that presents research bridging academic and applied anthropology. Recent Current Applications papers have addressed wind energy and the New Jersey shore, African asylum -seekers, and the popular television show Bones .
Philosophical anthropology, sometimes called anthropological philosophy, [1] [2] is a discipline within philosophy that inquires into the essence of human nature. [3] It deals with questions of metaphysics and phenomenology of the human person.
1 – The discovery of 13 Homo sapiens bone fragments, dating back approximately 47,500 years and identified through ancient DNA, was announced near Ranis, Germany.This research has provided new insights into the arrival of modern humans in Northwestern Europe, indicating they arrived earlier than previously thought.
Marvin Harris, a historian of anthropology, begins The Rise of Anthropological Theory with the statement that anthropology is "the science of history". [10] He is not suggesting that history be renamed to anthropology, or that there is no distinction between history and prehistory, or that anthropology excludes current social practices, as the general meaning of history, which it has in ...
The Generative Anthropology Society and Conference (GASC) is a scholarly association formed for the purpose of facilitating intellectual exchange amongst those interested in fundamental reflection on the human, originary thinking, and Generative Anthropology, including support for regular conferences.
New Materialists emphasise how Cartesian binaries around human and nature have caused many issues in the world by ignoring social complexity. [6] New materialism been championed for its more integrated approach that considers material and immaterial, biological, and social aspects as interconnected processes rather than distinct entities. [6]
These journals publish articles in the four fields of anthropology: archaeology, biological, cultural, and linguistic. American Anthropologist: premier journal of the American Anthropological Association, incorporating all four fields; Annual Review of Anthropology: published by Annual Reviews; releases an annual volume of review articles