reductionism in anthropology

Tom Riley (TRILEY@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU)
Wed, 18 May 1994 21:38:44 CDT

Daniel Grossman suggests that I stated that Kroeber would have had
anthropology explained bypsychology. Not so. Kroeber writes that
if there are laws of human behavior, they are to be found in psychology.
Of course that's OK since Bloch wrote in the journal History and
Theory that if there are laws in history they are to be found in
anthropology. Always nice to pass the buck, I suppose.