The Introduction: a Horizontal Overview of Historiography / 7

Chapter I. The Anthropological Dimension of History / 25

1. The cultural individualisation of historical reality / 25
Cultures as particular, contextual and systemic totalities / 26
The complex nature of cultural historical reality / 29
2. The socio-cultural character of historical reality / 31
3. Culture as a humanistic functional structure / 32
A humanistic functional structure / 32
Determining / 36
The natural environment / 37
The openness of the structure / 39
4. Cultural globalisation / 40
5. The duration, change and decline of culture / 43
Cultural adaptation / 43
Evolution without teleologism / 45
Progress and evolution / 53
6. Man as a zoon culturalis / 56
Meeting needs as the goal of human activity / 56
The cultural satisfaction of needs / 59
Freedom of choice / 62
The rational nature of choices / 65

Chapter II. The Anthropological Nature of Historical Cognition / 69

1. History as a study of culture / 69
History and cultural anthropology / 81
2. History as a science and a field of culture / 85
3. Historical cognition as scientific intercultural translation / 94

Chapter III. The Scientistic Anthropologising of Economic History / 103

1. The anthropological perspective in research on the economy / 105
2. Economic history as historical and comparative anthropology / 113
The formalising and dramatising perspectives of research into
the acts of economic choice / 120
The formalising perspective of research / 120
The dramatising perspective of research / 130
Integral interpretation in economic history understood as historical
and comparative anthropology / 144
3. The historical and comparative method / 146

Conclusions / 155
Literature / 165
Name Index / 181