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Derek Brereton

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Preface for a Critical Realist Ethnology

Journal of Critical Realism August 7, 2004 Derek Brereton 3 citations

Anthropology is the study of humanness, and the tension between cultural particularity and human universals has always enlivened the sub-discipline of ethnology. For example, efforts to show that logic and emotion vary with culture raise meta-theoretical questions of ontology and epistemology. Since the Boazian and Malinowskian revolution, however, the trend has been to delineate humanness in...