Historical anthropology as the modern philosophy of history and social anthropology: interdisciplinary dialogue

Authors

  • S. Aytov Ukrainian State University of science and technology, Dnipro, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15421/272201

Abstract

The article explores the complex issue of the influence of socio-cultural factors on the emergence of historical anthropology as a modern philosophy of history. The methodology of this work is based on the implementation of the principles of complementarity, structure, dialogicity. The following methods were involved in the study of this issue: philosophical hermeneutics, system-structural, interdisciplinary. Among the ontological categories of historical anthropology as a modern philosophy of history we note: reconstruction, historical explanation, intellectual intuition, microhistorical analysis, interdisciplinary dialogue. The epistemological psychological categories of historical anthropology as a modern philosophy of history include mentality, perception of space and time, worldview. The epistemological socio-cultural categories of historical anthropology as a modern philosophy of history include: socially significant behavior, everyday life, habitus. Among the axiological categories of historical anthropology are: «historical anthropocentrism», «psychological and cultural pluralism», democracy. anthropology is a special field of sociological knowledge. Social anthropology is one of the areas of study of society. Other social sciences are most closely related to it. This understanding corresponds to the name «social anthropology». The differences between the given interpretations of this science are insignificant. To take this factor into account, many researchers use the term «socio-cultural anthropology». In the French intellectual tradition, social anthropology actually coincides with ethnology. Mainly in the cognitive status of «others» were considered societies and cultural traditions, unlike the «Western», «industrial», type of socio-cultural relations. Social anthropology to a large extent and at the present stage of development focuses on this psychological and cultural division. It focuses research interest mainly on societies and cultures that are different from industrialized ones. However, in the modern world, the differentiation of societies according to the bipolar criterion is quite conditional. The scientific dialogue of historical anthropology as a modern philosophy of history with social anthropology gives this area of philosophical knowledge the possibility of further theoretical development. Among them are the following factors:

  • coverage of a wide range of phenomena and processes of historical existence – in social, ethnic and cultural dimensions;
  • integration into the problem field of historical anthropology of the study of culture, social organization and psychology of ethnic groups that are at the pre-state level of development;
  • expansion of intercultural interactions of historical and anthropological studies with socio-humanitarian studies through the analysis of socio-anthropological issues;
  • application of theoretical approaches to social anthropology in the study of ethnic, socio-cultural and mental aspects of the life of societies of the past;
  • involvement of concepts and research experience of socio-anthropological studies in the analysis of the historical anthropology of the humanitarian horizon of the principles of modern socio-cultural dynamics.

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Published

2022-06-20