Anthropology

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Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton. Anthropology

PREFATORY NOTE

ANTHROPOLOGY, AS A SCIENCE, AND AS A BRANCH OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

What Anthropology Is

The Value of Anthropology

Societies and Schools for the Study of Anthropology

Subdivisions of Anthropology

Means of Practical Instruction

General Scheme for Instruction in Anthropology

SYNOPSIS OF LECTURE COURSE. PRINCIPAL SUBDIVISIONS

I. —Somatology

II. —Ethnology

III. —Ethnography

IV. —Archæology

LABORATORY WORK

LIBRARY WORK

FIELD WORK

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Man himself is the only final measure of his own activities. To his own force and faculties all other tests are in the end referred. All sciences and arts, all pleasures and pursuits, are assigned their respective rank in his interest by reference to those physical powers and mental processes which are peculiarly the property of his own species.

Hence, the Study of Man, pursued under the guidance of accurate observation and experimental research, embracing all his nature and all the manifestations of his activity, in the past as well as in the present, the whole co-ordinated in accordance with the inductive methods of the natural sciences – this study must in the future unfailingly come to be regarded as the crown and completion of all others – and this is Anthropology.

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So likewise in hygiene and medicine, in ethics and religion, in language and arts, in painting, architecture, sculpture and music, the full import and often unconscious intention of human activity can only be understood, and directed in the most productive channels, by such a careful historical and physical analysis as Anthropology aims to present.

The world of science has been recognizing more fully, year by year, the paramount importance of the systematic study of Anthropology to the aspirations of modern civilization.

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