In the Footsteps of Heraclitus
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چکیده
Methodology is epistemology: the way of studying a phenomenon depends on the view of that phenomenon. In attempting to avoid anthropomorphism endowing or attributing human form and especially feelings and abilities to animals we have developed a particular mode of finding out which we term science. In this mode we feel it is appropriate to be 'objective' that is to remove our own feelings, thoughts and biases from influencing how we study. In this paper I {1} trace the search for objective techniques in the study of non-human primates and {2} present a rapprochment to established anthropological methods which provide a return to holism in the study of social behaviour.
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