Anthropology has traditionally attempted to stake out a compromise position on this central issue by regarding itself as both the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences. That compromise has always looked peculiar to those outside anthropology, but today it looks increasingly precarious to those within the discipline.
James William Lett. 1997. Science, Reason and Anthropology: The Principles of Rational Inquiry. Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.
The part about "the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences" has been attributed to A.L. Kroeber about anthropology and William Moulton about linguistics, but seems to originate from Eric Wolf's 1964 classic book Anthropology, page 88. Lett has added an interesting spin, I think.
