Open AccessParadigms 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.