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Horizons of Anthropology (Hardcover)
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Horizons of Anthropology (Hardcover)
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The scientific study of human evolution and culture is about a
hundred years old. This volume surveys its achievements and
methods. Originally published more than forty years ago, the
volume's contributors include people who have shaped anthropology's
future. As Gluckman says in his Preface, the contributions "point
to the horizons of increasing understanding of man, his evolution
and his social setting, as seen by a rising generation of
scholars." The book includes chapters on how man gradually became
different from other primates--on the origin and nature of language
and its contribution to our peculiarities as human beings. It
surveys the long history of human culture and societies and the
theories about their similarities and differences; it discusses
human equality and inequality, and it considers, from the
anthropologist's point of view, economics, politics, law, religion,
medicine, and the arts. In recent decades the various branches of
anthropology--physical, cultural, psychological, and social--have
become more specialized, and each branch is increasingly linking
itself to its appropriate cognate, biological, psychological, or
social sciences. Yet there remains a central common field to
anthropology, as the science of man, for practitioners in all its
branches. This book develops that common interest and deals with
the specific problems of various parts of the field. The book
brings out the basic nature of anthropology and the extraordinary
fascination that lies in the systematic study of the exuberant
variety of human societies and customs.
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