Antropologicheskij forum, 2015, no. 26

A PREDECESSOR’S REACTIONS TO HIS SUCCESSOR’S REVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL IDEAS

Lev Klejn

St Petersburg, Russia
lsklejn()gmail.com

Abstract: In Yuri Berezkin’s review of my book The History of Anthropological Ideas, he diminishes the importance of theories in anthropology and places a strong emphasis on facts. Therefore, he would prefer if I wrote a different book, not a history of ideas. Yet I believe that revolutions in science are performed first and foremost due to changing ideas, that create a new way of seeing the facts themselves. Additionally, the reviewer does not like my accentuation of scholars’ biographies, but I propose that ideas spring up in a living milieu, whose qualities should be explored.

Keywords: history of anthropology, biographies, theories, relativism, postmodernism.

To cite: Klejn L., 'Soobrazheniya predshestvennika o retsenzii preemnika na istoriyu antropologicheskikh idey' [A Predecessor’s Reactions to His Successor’s Review of The History of Anthropological Ideas], Antropologicheskij forum, 2015, no. 26, pp. 313–321.

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/026/klejn.pdf