Concept
Anthropology
Overview
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity that crosses biology and sociology, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. The term sociocultural anthropology is commonly used today. Linguistic anthropology studies how language influences social life. Biological (or physical) anthropology studies the biology and evolution of humans and their close primate relatives.
Archaeology, often referred to as the "anthropology of the past," explores human activity by examining physical remains. In North America and Asia, it is generally regarded as a branch of anthropology. In contrast, in Europe, it is considered either an independent discipline or a subfield of related disciplines such as history and palaeontology.
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When, therefore, modern anthropology made the first attempt to answer this question on the basis of empirical facts, it was but natural to assume that the characteristics of original man were not to be learned from a study of existing peoples, nor, indeed, from history, but that the data for the solution of the problem were of a _prehistoric_ nature, to be found particularly in those human remains and those products…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
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Such a metaphysic of morals, completely isolated, not mixed with any anthropology, theology, physics, or hyperphysics, and still less with occult qualities (which we might call hypophysical), is not only an indispensable substratum of all sound theoretical knowledge of duties, but is at the same time a desideratum of the highest importance to the actual fulfilment of their precepts. For the pure conception of duty…
Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
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(62. For the Javans and Cochin-Chinese, see Waitz, ‘Introduct. to Anthropology,’ Eng. translat. vol. i. p. 305. On the Yuracaras, A. d’Orbigny, as quoted in Prichard, ‘Physical History of Mankind,’ vol. v. 3rd ed. p. 476.)
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Names Anthropology.
Philosophers who discussed Anthropology
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Auguste Comte
- René Girard
- Julian Huxley
- Immanuel Kant
- Jürgen Habermas
- Constantin Noica
- Roland Barthes
- Ernest Gellner
- Martin Buber
- Jean Baudrillard
- Titus Burckhardt
- René Descartes
- Robert Nozick
- Ludwig Klages
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Giorgio Agamben
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Bruno Latour
- Young Marx
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Carl Jung
- Michel Foucault
Related ideas
- Feminist theory
- Belief
- Ritual
- Emotion
- Ethnicity
- French language
- Cognition
- History
- Fossil
- Folklore
- Franz Boas
- Geology
- Genetics
- Philosophy
- Human rights
- Ancient Greek
- Interdisciplinarity
- Ethnography
- Language
- Animal testing
- Sociology
- Archaeology
- Caribbean
- Literature
Opposing perspectives
- Tool
- Organized religion
- Humanities
- Gender equality
- Bronisław Malinowski
- Cultural anthropology
- Cultural relativism
- Ideology
- Cognitive linguistics
- Ethics
- Rationalization (sociology)
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.