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Historical particularism (coined by Marvin Harris in 1968) [1] is widely considered the first American anthropological school of thought. Closely associated with Franz Boas and the Boasian approach to anthropology, historical particularism rejected the cultural evolutionary model that had dominated anthropology until Boas. It argued that each ...
Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution [39] is a peer-reviewed web-based (open-access) journal that publishes on the transdisciplinary area of cliodynamics. It seeks to integrate historical models with data to facilitate theoretical progress. The first issue was published in December 2010.
Theories of history are theories for why things happened the way they did (and possibly what that means for the future). Subcategories This category has the following 22 subcategories, out of 22 total.
In this opinion, grand theories are unprovable, and instead intensive field work would determine the most likely explanation and history of a culture, and hence it is named "historicism". This opinion would produce a wide range of definition of what, exactly, constituted culture and history, but in each case the only means of explaining it was ...
The theory has been influential in the fields of generational studies, marketing, and business management literature. [6] However, the theory has also been described by some historians and journalists as pseudoscientific, [6] [9] [10] "kooky", [11] and "an elaborate historical horoscope that will never withstand scholarly scrutiny".
As dance is a ubiquitous element of culture, dance theory attempts to determine the instinctual nature of dance, and what makes various movements appear natural or forced. It is possible, through the writing and drawing of dances within a sphere, to understand that all dance is based on natural body movements, that is the moving of joints limbs ...
That meant biography could be a popular art form, but was theoretically incapable of explaining great events. Popular historians, biographers, and the general public disregarded these abstract laws history, and demanded colorful history based on idiosyncratic personality traits. This popular approach was based on what scholars call ...
For example, the historicity of the Iliad has become a topic of debate because later archaeological finds suggest that the work was based on some true event. [12] Questions of historicity frequently arise in relation to historical studies of religion. In these cases, value commitments can influence the choice of research methodology. [9]