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Structure and Anti‐Structure in Monasticism and Anthropology: Epistemological Parallels and Adaptive Models
Author(s) -
Reidhead Van A.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1525/ac.1993.4.2.9
Subject(s) - complementarity (molecular biology) , parallels , consciousness , human science , epistemology , articulation (sociology) , sociology , philosophy , political science , biology , law , economics , operations management , genetics , politics
While complementarity has been a major force in the epistemology the physical sciences, its role in die human sciences has been metaphorical at best. We argue that this state of affairs is in large measure due to particular way complementarity has been specified: As presently specified, complementarity is incompatible with human science research, and it is radically transformed in its articulation, cannot play a major role human science understanding. Based on the idea of recursivity, we present an alternate specification which we suggest is compatible with human science and illustrate our thesis with examples from ecology, interpretation, and human consciousness.