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American Anthropology: Some Distinctive Features

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The chapter focuses on three areas of reflection of the American anthropology present at its birth and which, over time, have characterised it: the accentuated empiricism, the idiographic / relativist perspective, the marked applied tendency that accompanies it from the beginning.

The intent is to explain, in a synthetic way, some theoretical-methodological emergencies that today have a precise meaning for anthropologists or constitute an essential point of reference in addressing particular research themes, as they are associated and referable to US epistemology.

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Biscaldi, A. (2023). American Anthropology: Some Distinctive Features. In: D'Agostino, G., Matera, V. (eds) Histories of Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21258-1_11

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