Concept
Anthropologist
Overview
An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Anthropologists are trying to understand the "big picture" of what it means to be human for a group of people in the world. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values, and general behavior of societies. Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life, while economic anthropology studies human economic behavior. Biological (physical), forensic, and medical anthropology study the biology and evolution of humans and their primate relatives, the application of biological anthropology in a legal setting, and the study of diseases and their impacts on humans over time, respectively.
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Inattention and reluctant attention lead to the ignoring of facts which really exist in abundance; as is well illustrated in the case of pre-historic implements. Biassed by the current belief that no traces of man were to be found on the Earth's surface, save in certain superficial formations of very recent date, geologists and anthropologists not only neglected to seek such traces, but for a long time continued to…
Herbert Spencer, The Factors of Organic Evolution
The author is tied to Anthropologist in the knowledge graph; names Anthropologist twice.
The question whether mankind consists of one or several species has of late years been much discussed by anthropologists, who are divided into the two schools of monogenists and polygenists. Those who do not admit the principle of evolution, must look at species as separate creations, or in some manner as distinct entities; and they must decide what forms of man they will consider as species by the analogy…
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Opens on Anthropologist; names Anthropologist.
Nor does China with its long-settled political organization, its elaborate and precise conventions, and its unprogressive literature, fail to exemplify the same truth. The successive phases of our own and neighbouring societies, furnish facts somewhat different in kind but similar in meaning. After our leading class-divisions had become tolerably well-established, it was long before they acquired their full…
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
States what Anthropologist is; the author is tied to Anthropologist in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Anthropologist
- Auguste Comte
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Marshall McLuhan
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Herbert Spencer
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Quentin Meillassoux
- Loren Eiseley
- Ernst Platner
Related ideas
- Artificial intelligence
- Franz Boas
- Historian
- Academy
- Journalism
- Medicine
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Bronisław Malinowski
- Ruth Benedict
- Scientist
- Edward Burnett Tylor
- United States
- Philosophical anthropology
- Cultural anthropology
- Anthropology
- Human
- Computer
- Biology
- Evolution
- Economic anthropology
- Paul Rabinow
Place in the tradition
Part of Contemporary Islamic philosophy.