{"id":10312,"date":"2026-03-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:18:29","slug":"looking-at-augustin-fuentess-article-2016-the-extended-evolutionary-synthesis-part-15-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10312","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Augustin Fuentes&#8217;s Article (2016) &#8220;The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis&#8230;&#8221; (Part 15 of 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0154 Section nine offers some parting thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author proposes&nbsp;<em>an integrated anthropology<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Integrated with what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An extended evolutionary synthesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0155 Recall that the full title of the article is &#8220;The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Ethnography, and the Human Niche: Toward an Integrated Anthropology&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The proposition of an integrated anthropology<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>the title<\/em>&nbsp;associate to&nbsp;<em>a category-based nested form<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide45-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide45-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide45-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide45-2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0156 The problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Anthropology<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;does not constellate under&nbsp;<em>the normal context of the human niche<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;and within&nbsp;<em>the potential of &#8216;the niche-construction version of an extended evolutionary synthesis&#8217;<sub>1<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead,&nbsp;<em>ethnography<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>anthropology&#8217;s adaptation<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>the normal context of community<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;operating on&nbsp;<em>the potential of &#8216;communal cognitive spaces&#8217;<sub>1<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0157 This makes sense, in terms of Aristotle&#8217;s causalities, which are cleverly re-imported from philosophy into scientific inquiry by the academic discipline of Anthropology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide46-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide46-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide46-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide46-2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0158 Yes, humans evolve.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, it seems that&nbsp;<em>contemporary anthropology<sub>2<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;should be contextualized by&nbsp;<em>a need for integration<sub>3<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<em>the potential of &#8216;evolutionary science&#8217;<sub>1<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0159 This expectation brings in a second problem, corresponding to the Greimas square of Dugin&#8217;s typology in&nbsp;<em>Comments on Alexander Dugin&#8217;s Book (2012) The Fourth Political Theory<\/em>&nbsp;(by Razie Mah, available at smashwords and other e-book venues).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide47-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide47-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide47-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slide47-2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0160&nbsp;<em>This examination of Augustin Fuentes&#8217;s article<\/em>&nbsp;adds value by elaborating&nbsp;<em>the elements within this Greimas square<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0161&nbsp;<em>The people<\/em>&nbsp;(A) are here represented by&nbsp;<em>the ethnographer,<\/em>&nbsp;operating within an institution (of &#8220;the people&#8221;), that manifests its organizational objectives in terms of contemporary political theories (including notions (B) on&nbsp;<em>how the discipline of anthropology should train ethnographers capable of receivin<\/em>g (and mapping)&nbsp;<em>the cognitive spaces within a narod<\/em>&nbsp;(C)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0162 In other words, the ethnographer as anthropologist (A) contrasts with the various theoretical apparatuses (B) that sustain the academic discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus,&nbsp;<em>these various theoretical social constructions<\/em>&nbsp;(B) are&nbsp;<em>what makes a people capable of practicing a level of social complexity that appears as wealth and power in the view of the limitations of any particular community or narod<\/em>&nbsp;(C).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the narod (C) is&nbsp;<em>a traditional society<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt<\/em>&nbsp;that cannot return to&nbsp;<em>a corresponding ethnos<\/em>&nbsp;(D) that would exist in&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0154 Section nine offers some parting thoughts. 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