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Anthropology within the Social Sciences
Cliff Sloane (cesloane@MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU)
Fri, 10 Mar 1995 11:29:08 -0600
Thozi asked me to post this to the entire list. This was written in
haste, so the ideas need more tightening up.
--Cliff
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 15:19:56 -0600 (CST)
From: Cliff Sloane <cesloane@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
To: Mr Thozi Nomvete <NOMVETE@getafix.utr.ac.za>
Subject: Re: Anthropology of own and other cultures
> This leads one to conclude that sociology and anthropology lie on a
> continuum differentiated only by methodologies which they sometimes
> exchange between themselves. If this is so, when do
> methodological tools become sociological and when do they become
> anthropological? Is the difference between the two fields not really
> one of emphasis?
It seems to me that you can establish a 3- or 4-dimensional model for all
the social sciences.
On a continuum of time, one has history -> anthropology -> sociology
On a continuum of group vs individual, one has
anthropology -> sociology -> psychology
On the notion of epistemology, one can scale it thus:
logic -> philosophy -> sociological theory -> anthro theory
On the subjects of study, going from concrete to abstract, one has
comp. literature -> ethnomusicology -> folklore -> linguistics
all of which "borrow" heavily from anthro
Cliff
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