Summary
Aleksandar Bošković: Anthropology: from the Stone Age to the Computer
A complete insight into the complexity of anthropology as an interpretive superstructure, as well as an understanding of the reasons why there were subject, theoretical and methodological differences at different historical moments that shaped today's anthropology. Connecting the idea of studying man with the idea of man himself, the author starts from the biological development of the human species and shows that the evolutionary process did not include only the biological side of human development, but precisely indicates the connection between biological and social, that is, cultural development. Human cognitive ability is an evolutionary feature, and man's ability to think, imagine and consider the world around him is part of his biology. It follows that the establishment of social relations and communities, as well as the creation of culture, are based on unique human biological features. The possibility of communication rests on the ability to handle symbols - that is, on the use of analogy and metaphor as mental tools for conceptually determining the surrounding reality - which clearly confirms the correctness of the author's point of view that anthropology is something more than just dealing with human cultures, that is, that a complex presentation of the research perspective of the study of the human world is needed.
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