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Marvin Harris, a historian of anthropology, begins The Rise of Anthropological Theory with the statement that anthropology is "the science of history". [10] He is not suggesting that history be renamed to anthropology, or that there is no distinction between history and prehistory, or that anthropology excludes current social practices, as the general meaning of history, which it has in ...
Another important aspect of Boasian anthropology was its perspective of cultural relativism which assumes that a culture can only be understood by first understanding its own standards and values, rather than assuming that the values and standards of the anthropologist's society, can be used to judge other cultures. In this way Boasian ...
The abstract noun anthropology is first attested in reference to history. [2] [n 1] Its present use first appeared in Renaissance Germany in the works of Magnus Hundt and Otto Casmann. [3] Their Neo-Latin anthropologia derived from the combining forms of the Greek words ánthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος, "human") and lógos (λόγος, "study"). [2]
The following entries cover events related to the study of anthropology which occurred in the listed year. Contents: 1800s 1900s 2000s: 1800s-1900s. 1870-1879
Franz Uri Boas [a] (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. [22] He was a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of ... The first generation of cultural anthropologists were interested in the relative status ...
Robert Harry Lowie (born Robert Heinrich Löwe; June 12, 1883 – September 21, 1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist.An expert on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, he was instrumental in the development of modern anthropology and has been described as "one of the key figures in the history of anthropology".
Mafeje was considered part of the first generation of indigenous researchers, who rejected colonialist and neo-colonialist interpretations of Africa. [90] According to Mafeje, colonialist (or white) anthropology is inherently problematic since it is founded on the pursuit of otherness , which breeds racism and apartheid, as demonstrated by the ...