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Definition of anthropology:

  • (noun) the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings

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Boulanger's ideas on philosophy, mythology, anthropology and history are of extraordinary interest today.

The doctrine concerning man comprises anthropology (including logic and ethics) and politics.

It is generally believed that the sole concern of anthropology is the description of skulls.

Such comparison, though needing caution and reserve, at once proved of great value to anthropology.

And, on the showing of anthropology, the other theories undoubtedly offer a more adequate explanation.

His work has influenced the study of anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, and literature.

From another point of view it is itself a part of philosophy, or physiology, or anthropology.

Upon this foundation, and with the aid of this principle, criminal anthropology was erected.

It speaks about their writers more than about their subject, be this history, sociology, or anthropology.

He is the founder of natural history, of anthropology, of political science, and of political economy.

Scattering replies place it under psychology, moral and political science, political economy, and anthropology.

We might quote the universal distribution of dolls in place and in time as revealed by anthropology.

Rather are we frequently cautioned not to attempt to explain it by having recourse to empirical anthropology.

The work is calculated to spread among its readers an attraction to the science of anthropology.

What has anthropology, as interpreted by Professor Ripley, to produce against this negative evidence of history?

As a whole, Livingstone's work in geography, anthropology, and natural history, stands the test of time.

We have studied anthropology through theology; we have now to begin the study of theology through anthropology.

There are no great names among them in geology, or astronomy, or anthropology, or any other science.

Accordingly, they were taken to the University of Chicago and turned over to the department of anthropology.

The secretary of the national association is a university professor of anthropology, who has also a medical degree.

That which I have ventured to term specialization and neglect is a great and important feature in anthropology.

It is a question of history, or rather, one may say, of anthropology of the mental history of man.

In the field of anthropology the scientific terminology ought always to be based upon certain determined limits.

In much the same way, pedagogical anthropology, considered as a form of study, departs from general anthropology.

The investigation, however, of the more isolated peoples might throw much light on the problems of anthropology.

Frank had had enough of practical anthropology, and left us, so there were but four to be provided.

"Mr Gomes is a skilled and gifted investigator, and his book is a valuable contribution to Eastern anthropology."

Now human psychology is recognized as contributing to various branches of anthropology, or the general study of man.

He liked to read books about the primitive man, books of anthropology, and also works of speculative philosophy.

The study of anthropology and archaeology throw new light upon the origin and early history of man.

On the whole, however, we can interpret the stories only by the aid of folklore and anthropology.

In this particular respect, archaeology owes a signal debt to physical anthropology and to anthropological methods in general.

Yet, notwithstanding that it offered studies and problems of direct interest to man, anthropology failed to achieve popularity.

In the last century the science, if it may now be so called, of physical anthropology came into being.

This is certainly one of the most important questions which the science of anthropology has yet to answer.

There is, however, no reason here for surprise when we remember how youthful a science criminal anthropology is.

In the long building which runs parallel to the Rue Cuvier are the galleries of anatomy and of anthropology.

Its study, for which no special name has been devised, is an important branch of the science of anthropology.

Thanks to the impact of another study, anthropology, we are awake now and look at mythology with other eyes.

In so far as these facts relate to human beings, they comprise in their totality the science of anthropology.

I insist upon the fact, which I have just pointed out, as one of the most important facts of anthropology.

Every class in the institution, evidently, had been dismissed that they might attend an illustrated lecture on anthropology.

In anthropology a statement may be regarded as proved for the time being so long as no opposition to it exists.

Why, a study of human anatomy proves it, even if we did not have conclusive evidence in anthropology and geology.

How far we are from this, we see when we attempt to make criminal anthropology the basis of criminal legislation.

The fact lies deeper hidden than that, and may puzzle the psychologist as well as the professor of anthropology.

Students of anthropology will recognize all the sex symbols in this poem and will find analogies in other literatures.

Astronomy, geology, geography, anthropology, chronology, and indeed all the various departments of human knowledge, were made to conform to it.

The material on the physical anthropology of the Cheyenne showed clearly the great variation that occurs among living races.

The first has reference to physical anthropology, and consists of a small collection of typical skulls and hair of races.

For that reason I am not going to describe biology as natural history, or anthropology as the natural history of man.

His mental trend was toward scientific studies, and his dominant scheme of investigation embraced the elusive problems of anthropology.

It was primarily by means of an abstract opposition of culture to nature that philosophy, and even anthropology, constructed natural man.

The study of anthropology and of law ought to be compulsory for all those who desire to become governors of prisons.

It is easy to say that the meaning of savage has been explained and defined by almost every writer on anthropology.

Criminal anthropology declares that the interest of society lies, not with the individual crime alone, but with the criminal.

The whole problem of race and racial values was put to the test of the science of anthropology and of mathematics.

If anthropology was to maintain its high position as a real science, its alliance with linguistic studies could not be too close.

He had profited by much travel and reading, and anthropology was a subject on which he could be rather brilliant.

In Russia and Poland, although the study of criminal anthropology dates from very recent years, it is making considerable progress.

Morphological anthropology applied to the physical study of children, is also a strong element in the growth of the new pedagogy.

It was a work of observation, insight, and genius, and was a landmark in the progress of the science of anthropology.

Of late years there has sprung into existence a school of criminal anthropology, with societies, journals, and a rapidly increasing literature.

Born or instinctive criminals are those who most frequently present the organic and psychological characteristics established by criminal anthropology.

Let us turn from this distressing political spectacle to observe what light, if any, anthropology may shed upon the problem.

Even as I watched, I thought of the interest she would create in the souls of those who went in for anthropology.

To these conclusions, as far as they are matters of scientific opinion, we have been led by nothing but the study of anthropology.

Anthropologists, from the beginning of anthropology, have battled in vain for a satisfactory inclusive definition, or, at least, description of the normal.

This is the lesson, I think, of what we call folklore or anthropology, which to many seems trivial, to many seems dull.

The immense extent and the great importance of this science have justified the creation of late years of special chairs of anthropology.

Criminal anthropology is to criminal sociology, in its scientific function, what the biological sciences, in description and experimentation, are to clinical practice.

Both Professor Hester and I are especially obliged to Campbell Grant, amateur of anthropology as well as artist, for the many illustrations.

Criticism and comments are earnestly invited from all those interested in the special subject of this paper and anthropology in general.

"Every positive progress which we have made in the region of prehistoric anthropology has removed us further from the demonstration of this relation."

Such, doubtless, was the harmonic method of the Greeks; whether, by them, it was thus clearly founded on anthropology, or not.

The dissolution of theology into anthropology in the field of thought is the dissolution of monarchy into republic in the field of politics.

Into the differences which archaeology and anthropology detect, Aristotle did not enter, for he was writing on the Art of Poetry.

With this dominant position of motherhood in woman he correlates also two facts of great importance in the anthropology of the female offender.

Luther started with the anthropology and advanced from below upwards; Calvin started with the theology and moved from above downwards.

We turn to anthropology for help, and find this, the rite of the second birth, widespread, universal, over half the savage world.

And on this point again the students of anthropology will learn more, I believe, from the Veda than from any other book.

And the more modern anthropology teaches us about primitive man, the stronger becomes the case against the transcendental side in the controversy.

Lang has told us, 'Homer presents to the anthropologist the spectacle of a society which will have nothing to do with anthropology.'

It is now agreed as a mere question of anthropology that the universal language of the human soul has always been "I perish with hunger."

It is divided into three parts, criminal anthropology, mental alienation, and the relation of serious offenses (assault, murder, poisoning, etc.) to legal medicine.

Here also Kant took the same course, which seemed to me right for the theoretical knowledge of the natural sciences and for anthropology.

Atkinson happened to be conversing with some natives on questions of anthropology, when his servant brought in a lizard which he had killed.

The University has recently recognized the importance of anthropology by adopting a scheme for granting degrees for research in this subject.

Now we come to Herodotus himself, to take the elements of his anthropology in similar order, and put them into their respective places.

He, too, began to laugh; and Lola, as soon as she stopped thinking about the thing only as a problem in anthropology, joined in.

His interest, however, was general as well as special, and the development of anthropology owes much to his insight and ready pen.

Comparative study of the life of primitive races, scientific anthropology, and exact psychology, all show this well-meaning assumption to be a mere delusion.

As a rule these critics, however scholarly, have not been, and are not, comparative students of early literature, of anthropology, archaeology, and mythology.

Under this head we must also class the philosophy which proposes to build upon anthropology,' facts of consciousness, inward sense, or outward experience.

Certain brief sections of this book have, with considerable modifications, been taken over from my earlier publications upon the development of criminal anthropology.

He has returned with large collections, representing the flora, fauna, geology, and anthropology of this hitherto unknown portion of the earth's surface.

He can, by courses in comparative history and anthropology, produce a life-long realization of the way codes impose a special pattern upon the imagination.

To introduce the subject I give two examples, one from animal psychology, the other from anthropology, illustrating the extreme phenomena of mass suggestion.

Petersburg, in 1834, he very largely devoted himself to anthropology in its widest sense, and thereby extended his scientific reputation into other fields.

There can be no question that the study of anthropology has considerably changed our views respecting the first appearance of man upon the earth.