ANTH 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Flour, Essentialism
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Operationalizing what white is talking about is possible in some contexts (rappaport) but is extremely difficult. Famous in context of this being published with boas having just died, wwii, not to mention very different from what was happening. What constitutes science is a big question at the time, historically been all about ahistorical essentialist science, historical science is a different model but acknowledging that is a whole thing. Boas criticized the progressive evolutionists methods and thinking, sloppy, circular, argument is a tautology. Want to know the diachronic reasons for synchronically observed evidence, english does not do this well.