Del principio descriptivo-comparativo a la investigación biocultural en antropología física

Abstract

As a scientific discipline, anthropology had to establish methodological principles that guaranteed somehow the objectivity of knowledge that integrated diverse focuses to explain and justify the biological and social differences of human groups. This is the way descriptive-comparative methodological principle was established and conditions the way to observe, describe, classify, understand, and question the investigation problem in a systematic manner. This methodology has allowed to carry out wide ethnographic studies as well as classifications at the sociohistoric and socio-cultural level , however, at present, anthropology has required to use and propose focuses that contemplate new study problems, particularly in physical anthropology where the biocultural focus has been recapitulated to understand the relationships among body and culture, that generates new queries of methodological type that are used as an approach in this presentation.