General Anthropology: Between Philosophy and Science

The article seeks to define the grounds of general anthropology as a complex human science. The author considers the preconditions for the formation of general anthropology as a scientific discipline. Within the system of human sciences it occupies a specific place. General anthropology is a branch of anthropology which studies on the one hand, the theoretical problems of unity and diversity of the forms of human existence in the world, and on the other hand, the generic properties which emerge and change in the process of evolution.

general anthropology, human sciences, humanology, philosophic anthropology, physical anthropology, social (cultural) anthropology, generic human being, a complex approach