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 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. The outcome would determine how the tribe adapted to changing environments and would inform us of the strengths and weakness of each tribe’s refinement, or lack thereof, of their systems. One non-evolving system could be ruinous for the whole tribe as well as the impetus to
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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. The outcome would determine how the tribe adapted to changing environments and would inform us of the strengths and weakness of each tribe’s refinement, or lack thereof, of their systems. One non-evolving system could be ruinous for the whole tribe as well as the impetus to migrate.