The history of linguistic anthropology as a device for a new integrated perspective.
The history of the emergence of linguistic anthropology helps us not only to reflect on the path-dependency of our own scientific categories, but also to enlarge our own perspective beyond these categories. The following paper tries to develop on the basis of Latour's network theory a new integrated perspective that reflects our own historical position in the network of constructing scientific facts, in the context of political problems, of social claims of objects that we are using in order to constitute our scientific field.
Holzer
Jacqueline
J
University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. holzer@access.unizh.ch
D000069:Acculturation; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000266:history*; D003469:Culture; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States