Title: What does holism mean in anthropological terms? - Quora
Headings: What does holism mean in anthropological terms?
What does holism mean in anthropological terms?
Roger H Werner
J.t. Thacker
BIKORIMANA VALENS

Content: The concept of “holistic archaeology
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This question may be answered in many ways but I will try to keep it simple. Anthropology is the study of Anthropoids more generally known as primates including various modern and extinct Hominids and their Simian relatives. My specialty is archaeology but I also have experience in ethnography, a branch of cultural anthropology. To reconstruct human behavior in its previous natural and cultural environments, archaeology employs knowledge and techniques from many different academic disciplines and there are few sciences that have no relevance to archaeology. The concept of “holistic archaeology” specifically defines an inclusive approach, comprising all aspects of human societies, such as ecology, economics, social organization, dating, politics, art, folklore, mythology, religion, cosmology, and ideology. The study of each of these often uses multiple methods including those employed in physical and biological sciences, history, ethnography, geography, cartography, statistics, remote sensing, and social anthropology. Ed Morneau
, studied Anthropology & History at North Shore Community College
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Originally Answered: What is meant by a "holistic approach" in anthropology? A holistic approach is a study of systems which represent a whole of something. In anthropology a holistic study of tribal migration, for example, would consider systems of sheltering, feeding, and protecting the tribe to determine the success and progress of their migration patterns and inevitably the survival of a tribe.