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In comparison with criminal and medical anthropology, pedagogic anthropology differs substantially in its declared intentions.
It is interesting to note the importance of researches in ethnological anthropology conducted in small centers of habitation.
The detailed study of criminal heredity and of criminal habit, or recidivism, scarcely forms part of criminal anthropology.
It follows that, in pedagogic anthropology, the direction taken by the naturalistic study of man is predominantly physiological.
History split into philology, ethnology, anthropology, and mythology, and these again split finer than the splitting of hairs.
A knowledge of the laws governing the growth of the brain is of particular importance in relation to pedagogic anthropology.
Therefore, most works on anthropology, ethnology, and primitive culture may be expected to throw some light on our present subject.
Now I am blissfully ignorant of anthropology, and could not analyze scientifically, even at the risk of being destroyed critically.
Indeed, without great violence it might be construed to comprehend nearly the whole domain of systematic botany, zoology, and anthropology.
Few Southerners have made any serious attempt to read up on anthropology or to acquaint themselves with the results of intelligence tests.
It was only after modern anthropology had unearthed the characteristic beliefs of primitive man that many myths became intelligible.
It deals with the origin, development, and significance of religion on the basis of modern anthropology, ethnology, psychology, and history.
From this brief paraphrase of the table of contents, it is obvious that nearly all branches of anthropology are touched upon.
Suzanne was a well-educated, well-read woman, but I prayed that she might not be conversant with technical terms of anthropology.
Still others are projected, and it is hoped that the field of North American anthropology will be entirely covered by them.
As far back as history, anthropology, and even zoology can trace, these natural resources have been the object of competitive struggle.
The author thinks that the first chapters of English history will have to be written over again by the light of anthropology.
All the auxiliary disciplines of biology, botany and zoology, physiology and anatomy, are enlisted in the service of anthropology and ethnology.
Archaeology, anthropology, philology, history and a host of other sciences and arts were invoked in an effort to substantiate a land claim.
Pauperism has been divided into genera, species, and varieties: it is a complete natural history, one of the most important branches of anthropology.
I have written several treatises on the subject of criminal anthropology, and my professional services have occasionally been enlisted by the police.
Every positive progress which we haw made in the region of prehistoric anthropology has removed us farther from the demonstration of this theory!
We will not attempt to refute his theories, as they are based on ignorance of the laws which govern philology, anthropology, and mythology.
Often it is both, and to the trained eye, and thought, of a student of anthropology and heredity, the present outlook is pitiful, indeed.
It will be found very useful to students of Roman literature and history as well as to students of anthropology and the history of religion.
For the same reason it is less subject to variations due to environment, and from this point of view offers slight interest to pedagogic anthropology.
"An exhaustive and valuable survey of its geography, geology, history, botany, zoology and anthropology, and of its commercial possibilities in the near future."
The terrible fear of falling into mere rationalizing is gradually extending from the so-called natural sciences to psychology, anthropology, politics, and political economy.
Indeed, the same thing was done by Lombroso, when he applied anthropology to the practice of psychiatry and later to the study of criminals.
Besides, this is a question that belongs to the domain of general biology, and it is no more settled in botany or in zoology than in anthropology.
Like the whimsical fellow he was, he had been sunk for the past four or five years in the swampy fields of sociology and anthropology.
Lang in leading the way towards the analytical method in anthropology has avoided many of its pitfalls, but his disciples are not so successful.
If we pursue the study, and begin to compare different races of men with each other, we find our ethnology extends to a more complex anthropology.
My object in the present work has been to give in a condensed form the essential facts of the twin sciences of anthropology and ethnography.
During his activity as a teacher Kant showed, even into his later period, a predilection for natural science, especially for physical geography and anthropology.
According to modern anthropology the human species probably evolved in a relatively narrow area and peopled the earth by successive migrations to distant lands.
Each individual example is in itself a new problem in history, chronology, ethnology, and anthropology; within every one lie the hidden possibilities of a revolution in knowledge.
Descartes' doctrine of body is conceived from an entirely materialistic standpoint, his anthropology, indeed, going further than the principles of his system would allow.
The reported occurrence, therefore, of phenomena which suggest the possible existence of causes of belief not accepted by anthropology, is a distasteful thing, and is avoided.
The classification of the human races has always been the stumbling block of anthropology, and up to the present time the difficulty remains almost undiminished.
The study of anthropology, natural history, and botany will convince anyone that the principle of accommodation is everywhere present in connection with that of self-preservation.
In his inaugural address, he defined anthropology as the science of the whole nature of man, and ethnology as the history or science of nations or races.
Devoting himself to these fine subjects, and many others, he seems to have neglected anthropology; so that in his fiftieth year he was but a lonesome bachelor.
Psychology, rather, is a mere anthropology of the internal sense, i.e. is the knowledge of our thinking self in life; and, as theoretical cognition, remains merely empirical.
In 1879 Congress created a special bureau under the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to be called the Bureau of Ethnology, to make researches in North American anthropology.
They partake of the character of studies in that borderland of anthropology, biology, philology and history which surrounds the immediate domain of medical and general science.
Pedagogic anthropology, on the contrary, embraces all humanity; but it pays special attention to that part of it which is psychologically superior: the normal human being.
As to anthropology, they had those same remnants of information about other peoples, and the knowledge of the savagery of the occupants of those dim forests below.
The language was unwritten, but he wrote a grammar, and a vocabulary in which the etymology is given, and there he had enough savage anthropology to interest him.
The further we get from mathematical exactness the more liable we are to differences of opinion, which may, as in the case of anthropology, cluster round some question of national pique.
And since these laws find their fullest manifestations for us, at least, in rational human natures, the study of anthropology is largely replacing that of scholastic divinity.
We cannot put Humanity into a museum or dry it for examination; our one single still living specimen is all history, all anthropology, and the fluctuating world of men.
This method is the only really rational method for studying the thorax; and its simplicity, practicality and graphic representation recommend it as a valuable aid to pedagogic anthropology.
Some who have specialized in folklore and anthropology are very pessimistic as to the degree in which the scientific outlook upon nature is replacing the more primitive attitude associated with magic.
When the stories brought by travelers, ancient and modern, learned and unlearned, pious or skeptical, agree in the main, we have all the certainty that anthropology can offer.
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live.
Psychology has been drawn upon to interpret the movements of revolutions or religions, anthropology and ethnology furnish a clue to problems to which the key of documents has been lost.
The class of persons who are said to have possessed this power appear, now and then, in all human history, and have at least bequeathed to us a puzzle in anthropology.
To anthropology, however, in its more general sense as the natural history of man, ethnology and ethnography may both be considered to belong, being related as parts to a whole.
We owe to the intuitive genius of Giuseppe Sergi the conception of a form of pedagogic anthropology far more exact in its methods of investigation than anything which had hitherto been foreshadowed.
There is, in fact, at the present day no department of science in which the wildest and most untenable hypotheses have blossomed out so freely as in anthropology and ethnology, so-called.
In this way descriptive anthropology and comparative anthropology will best work hand in hand for the furtherance of their common aim, the understanding of the nature and development of man.
The exhibit in the division of anthropology, Administration Building, was one of the finest of its kind, and one which attracted the attention of archaeologists from every part of the world.
There are students of anthropology and heredity who think that it is a far more awful thing to thrust, unasked, upon a human being a life that is handicapped before he gets it.
Furthermore, the teacher will acquire under the guidance of anthropology certain practical rules in the art of educating the child; and it is this especially that makes the anthropological and psychological training of the modern teacher so necessary.
Apart from his official work, the former will always be remembered in the republic of letters by his learned contributions to anthropology and the literature of mental diseases, in which he is more especially identified with the doctrine of Moral Insanity.
Before, however, we consider the momentous influence that Darwinism has had in anthropology, we shall find it useful to glance at its history in the course of the last half century, and notice the various theories that have contributed to its advance.
A final work will examine the relations of woman in society, will expose the extravagant hypothesis of writers on this subject who have been ignorant of anthropology, and will describe the reforms which the common interests of mankind demand in this respect.
The truths on which all religion is founded are drawn within the domain of science, the nature of the first cause, its relation to the world, the nature of second causes, the origin of life, anthropology, including the origin, nature, and destiny of man.
It was in this manner that anthropology slowly evolved a method and, by doing so, raised itself to the rank of a science, without ever once being utilized for practical purposes or recognized as necessary as a supplemental or integral element of other sciences.
To the master of anthropology it is easy to take any word expressive of an element of human character or capacity and show from what convolution, what group of convolutions, or what part of a convolution the quality or faculty arises which that word expresses.
It may thus be conceived how vast a field archaeology embraces, and how intimately it is connected with the sciences of geology (q.v.) and anthropology (q.v.), while it naturally includes within its borders the consideration of all the civilizations of ancient times.
For this reason, his books and the thirty volumes of his archives will remain for many decades to come a rich mine of discovery for anthropology, as soon as this science returns from the study of Mongols and Australians to the examination of contemporary Europeans.
While his work extended far beyond the borders of what we should now call criminal anthropology, he devoted much attention to the problems of the criminal organization, and even to its varieties, many of his observations according well with the results of recent investigation.
The very method, therefore, lies chiefly outside the experience of library history, being gathered mainly from primitive art and anthropology, and definition must needs consider what the essential nature of these primitive libraries is that links them with the great libraries of modern times.
The latter, who became in after years a well-known professor of anthropology, was Green's first real friend, and the letters which he wrote to him show how necessary it was for Green to have one with whom he could share his interests and exchange views freely.
Apart from the literary material and the few surviving fragments of religious law and ritual, there are two other sources of light of which we can now avail ourselves, archaeology and anthropology; but it must be confessed that as yet their illuminating power is somewhat uncertain.
The Proceedings series, begun in 1878, is intended primarily as a medium for the publication of original papers based on the collections of the National Museum, that set forth newly acquired facts in biology, anthropology, and geology, with descriptions of new forms and revisions of limited groups.
Or, again, it may be urged that the study of professors (in so far as professors can be regarded as human) is the study of human nature, and that students who observe their professors carefully are gaining an acquaintance with a practical branch of the science of anthropology.
Many points might be taken, much praise (were mine worth anything) might be given; but I have had but one object, to defend the method of anthropology from a running or dropping fire of criticism which breaks out in many points all along the line, through Contributions to the Science of Mythology.