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critical realism in ethnology  

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  • Critical realism is a social science metaphilosophy that offers ethnology an ontological grounding necessary to realize its full potential as the study of humanness. Humanness is a feature of the world derived from, but not reducible to, evolution by natural, sexual, and kinship modes of selection. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Critical Realism in Ethnology]

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