Introduction to Anthropology Batak Tribesman –c. 1880 © Jennifer L. Anderson 2014.

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Introduction to Anthropology Batak Tribesman –c © Jennifer L. Anderson 2014

Anthropology literally means the “science of mankind.”

Socrates The social or behavioral sciences grew out of inquiries about the nature of humanity which date back to Greek and Roman times.

Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas over the Heretics (detail) ( ) Fresco S. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

The idea that human society was an appropriate scientific area of study began to develop in seventeenth century Europe. Physiognomist John Lavater

Voltaire and King Fredrick II of Prussia For the most part, however, the Age of Enlightenment meant that intellectuals were free, within limits, to talk and think about what was good and bad in their societies and in others.

Maoris

Aleutian Islands Voyage of Captain Cook

Incas of Peru from 1777 print One of the most influential ideas of the era was the concept of the “Noble Savage.”

Anthropology began to develop a distinct character as a discipline in its own right in the early nineteenth century. Napoleon in Egypt

Because colonialists often kept detailed diaries and wrote long letters, they became the earliest ethnographers. Batak Tribesman –c. 1880

In 1838, a society with both intellectual interests and a social agenda similar to the “Society of the Observers of Man” was formed in London.

Women in West Indies Their first order of business was an attempt to compare the distinctive characteristics of black and white people.

1850 plate on “race” and skull type

Darwin’s research on natural selection provided an opportunity to separate and clarify concepts of physical and social evolution Print – London Sketchbook

Illustrations from L’HOMME PRIMITIF By LOUIS FIGUIER published in 1876 Edouard Lartet

Feverish enthusiasm for the new concept of biological evolution led to its wholesale application to social arenas. Stereo-print of “Primitive Artist Indian Women”

Illustrations from L’HOMME PRIMITIF By LOUIS FIGUIER published in 1876

Physical Anthropologist Cultural Anthropologist/Sociolinguist Archaeologists

The Four Fields of Anthropology 1.Physical Anthropology 2.Archaeology 3.Anthropological Linguistics 4.Cultural Anthropology

Physical Anthropology Paleoanthropology Biological Anthropology

Archaeology Archaeologists working in Hawaii uncover a stone lined hearth (left to right, Jonathan Carpenter, Calum Wilkenson (back), and Mark McCoy).

Anthropological Linguistics

Cultural Anthropology

Edward Tylor The concept of “culture” became central to the development of theory among social anthropologists and ethnographers.

Culture... is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

Bronislaw Malinowski interviewing Trobriand sorcerer c. 1917

As time went on anthropologists became more curious about the way certain cultural materials and traits passed from group to group. Copy of an Ife (Nigerian) bronze head wearing a western military helmet by an artist from Cameroun

Today, most anthropologists try to integrate a humanistic approach to anthropology with scientific techniques.