FRANZ BOAS‐I DHE ANTROPOLOGJIA GJITHËPËRFSHIRËSE APO HOLISTIKE
FRANS BOAS AND HOLISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Anthropology as science and a knowledge has many meanings. It is understood as a comparative study of the human being as a biological evolutionary beings, as well as a unique study of human cultural diversity, past and present. This essay presents an introductory overview of four-field anthropology, as recognized in the American anthropology. The essay presents an outline of Franz Boas's thought in the context of the conceptualization of holistic anthropology, consisting of physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaecology. Boas's thoughts are discussed in the context of the paradigm of cultural relativism and historical particularism, as major theoretical paradigms in anthropology and predominant in American anthropology. This essay is a theoretical and critical glanceon the development of four field model of anthropology, in the context of Boasian thought, and the importance of this model in the context of anthropology.

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