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Paradigms of anthropology as causes of taxonomic controversies

Author(s) -

Jacek Tomczyk

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

anthropological review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.262

H-Index - 12

eISSN - 2083-4594

pISSN - 1898-6773

DOI - 10.18778/1898-6773.65.08

Subject(s) - anthropology , paradigm shift , affect (linguistics) , encephalization , epistemology , history , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , medicine , brain size , magnetic resonance imaging , radiology

The thesis of the paper is that the paradigms espoused by scholars affect their taxonomic decisions, which points to a philosophical source of such controversies. The paradigms the author discusses as holding in anthropology, at various times, include: (1) the “fixity-of-species” paradigm, (2) the “Asian roots” paradigm, (3) the “encephalization” paradigm, and (4) the “mid-Tertiary” paradigm.

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