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Because of the holistic nature of anthropological research, all branches of anthropology have widespread practical application in diverse fields.

One of the central characteristics is that anthropology tends to provide a comparatively more holistic account of phenomena and tends to be highly empirical.

Callicott supports a holistic, non-anthropocentric environmental ethic which is in accordance with Leopold's view that " A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

It is wrong when it tends otherwise " He holds the view that an adequate environmental ethic — one that addresses actual environmental concerns — must be intrinsically holistic.

He was in a unique position to make such a holistic assertion because he had previously compiled a review of biome classification.

It is meant to be a holistic piece of writing about the people in question, and today often includes the longest possible timeline of past events that the ethnographer can obtain through primary and secondary research.

A few theoretical physicists have argued that classical physics is intrinsically incapable of explaining the holistic aspects of consciousness, but that quantum theory provides the missing ingredients.

They favor a more holistic approach based on the 4 ' E's ; education ( of everyone involved ), encouragement ( to apply the education ), enforcement ( to protect the rights of others ), and engineering ( to facilitate travel while respecting every person's equal right to do so ).

Magic in Medicine, which depicts African culture and holistic healing, is considered one of " America's first public scenes of Africa ".

A design goal may range from solving the least significant individual problem of the smallest element, to the most holistic influential utopian goals.

In drawing up these laws, Engels presupposes a holistic approach outlined above and in Lenin's three elements of dialectic below, and emphasizes elsewhere that all things are in motion.

when presented as guidelines for a philosophy of change, not as dogmatic percepts true by fiat, the three classical laws of dialectics embody a holistic vision that views change as interaction among components of complete systems, and sees the components themselves not as a priori entities, but as both products and inputs to the system.

Some forms of education reform promote the adoption of progressive education practices, a more holistic approach which focuses on individual students ' needs and self-expression.

* Anne Primavesi ( 2000 ), Sacred Gaia: holistic theology and earth system science

Others find this too biologically based and rigid, and prefer a freer interpretation, with the Maiden as birth ( independent, self-centred, seeking ), the Mother as giving birth ( interrelated, compassionate nurturing, creating ), and the Crone as death and renewal ( holistic, remote, unknowable ) — and all three erotic and wise.

Hildegard has also become a figure of reverence within the contemporary New Age movement, mostly due to her holistic and natural view of healing, as well as her status as a mystic.

She was the inspiration for Dr. Gottfried Hertzka's " Hildegard-Medicine ", and is the namesake for June Boyce-Tillman's Hildegard Network, a healing center that focuses on a holistic approach to wellness and brings

Microevolution is reductionist, but macroevolution is holistic.

A key part of most Pagan worldviews is the holistic concept of a universe that is interconnected.

Its central precepts have been described as " drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational psychology, holistic health, parapsychology, consciousness research and quantum physics ".

It holds to " a holistic worldview ," emphasising that the Mind, Body and Spirit are interrelated and that there is a form of Monism and unity throughout the universe.

" As a result of the large-scale activities surrounding the Harmonic Convergence in 1987, the American mass-media further popularised the term as a label for the alternative spiritual subculture, including practices such as meditation, channeling, crystal healing, astral projection, psychic experience, holistic health, simple living, and environmentalism ; or belief in phenomena such as Earth mysteries, ancient astronauts, extraterrestrial life, unidentified flying objects, crop circles, and reincarnation.

This category deals with implementation issues and holistic system issues.

The field was largely founded by the German geographer Carl Troll Landscape ecology typically deals with problems in an applied and holistic context.

Pentecostalism is a holistic faith, and the belief that Jesus is Healer is one-fourth of the full gospel.