Juhani Ihanus

Multiple Origins

Edward Westermarck in Search of Mankind

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on extensive research this work gives a detailed account and a reappraisal of Edward Westermarck's thought. Westermarck had versatile relations to Victorian evolutionists (Wallace, Tylor, Spencer), and to British social anthropologists (Frazer, Haddon, Rivers, Malinowski) and psychologists (Shand, Sully). Westermarck was a pioneer of anthropological fieldwork, and his writings on the history of marriage and on the origin and development of moral ideas are modern classics. He was a transitional figure between evolutionism, on the one hand, and functionalism and structuralism, on the other hand. Westermarck's theories of exogamy and incest, and his notions of psychological ethics, moral emotions and concepts, and expanding morality were referred to by Durkheim and Freud, as they are referred to by present-day evolutionary theorists. The search for mankind continues to be of current interest.

Produktdetails

• Europäische Studien zur Ideen- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte / European Studies in the History of Scie 6
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 34455
• Neuausg.
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9783631344552
• ISBN-10: 3631344554
• Artikelnr.: 28181266

Autorenporträt

The Author: Juhani Ihanus is Docent of Cultural Psychology (University of Helsinki), and of the History of Science and Ideas (University of Oulu).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Evolutionism and the methodological transition - Social anthropology, socio-psychology, and the history of human consciousness - Westermarck's relations to anthropological, psychological and sociological knowledge - Westermarck's research on marriage and sexuality - Westermarck's theory of morality and ethical relativity.