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The Positioning of Archaeology within Anthropology: A Canadian Historical Perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
Abstract
In this paper we argue that archaeologists and anthropologists should be aware of forces that encourage the separation of archaeology from anthropology. Sociological, organizational, and intellectual factors that do not necessarily have disciplinary separation as their logical consequence can nonetheless have a cumulative effect that moves the relationship between the subfields of anthropology in the direction of greater or lesser independence. We compare the relative strength of certain factors that could either encourage or discourage the perpetuation of four-field anthropology in Canada and the United States.
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En este articulo argúimos que arqueólogos y antropologos deben estar alertas a las fuerzas que estimulan la separatión de la arqueología y la antropología. Factores sociológicos, intelectuales, y de organizatión, aunque no producen necesariamente una separación, tienen un efecto acumulativo que mueve la relatión entre subdisciplinas en una directión de major o menor independencia. Comparamos lafuerza relativa de ciertos factores que podrían estimular o evitar la continuatión de una antropología de cuatro subdisciplinas en Canadá y los Estados Unidos.
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