Category: History - Other
Definition of the word “Anthropology.” Fundamental conceptions. Race discrimination: in Bushman paintings, in the art of ancient Egypt, Assyria, etc., in Vedic literature. Hippocrates. Aristotle. Vesalius. Spigel. Tyson. Pygmies. Linnæus. Buffon. Blumenbach. Monsters and Wild...
Definition of the word “Anthropology.” Fundamental conceptions. Race discrimination: in Bushman paintings, in the art of ancient Egypt, Assyria, etc., in Vedic literature. Hippo...
2. CHAPTER II.Craniology: Blumenbach, the founder of Craniology. Camper and the facial angel. Various early craniologists. Retzius and the Cephalic Index. Grattan. Broca. Topinard. De Quatref...
3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER V.6. CHAPTER VI.Race description and classification. Bernier. Linnæus. Blumenbach. Other classifications. Pruner Bey. Bory de S. Vincent. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Haeckel. Broca and Topi...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.Prehistoric man. Flint implements. Denmark. Caves: Oreston. Kirkdale. Liège. Kent’s Cavern. Lake dwellings. Irish crannogs. Swiss pile dwellings. Brixham Cave. Boucher de Perthe...
9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER X.11. CHAPTER XII.IN his address to the Anthropological Section of the British Association in 1892 Professor Alexander Macalister made use of a little allegory to illustrate the growth and progre...
12. CHAPTER I.ARISTOTLE, “the father of them that know,” as Dante called him, is credited with having coined the word “anthropologist”; but he did not employ it in a very complimentary sense....
13. CHAPTER II.HITHERTO we have been dealing with the great pioneers in Anthropology, those who laid the foundations, brought order out of chaos, and suggested the outlines of future work. Hen...
14. CHAPTER III.NEXT to geographical discovery, perhaps the most stimulating influence on Anthropology has been the succession of controversies in which it has constantly been involved. It has...
15. CHAPTER IV.IGNORANCE and prejudice combined to assert that man was created a few thousand years ago in a state of physical perfection. The possibility of the discovery of fossil man was th...
16. CHAPTER V.AT the present time the data for a comparison of the bodily functions of the members of one race with those of another are so scanty that the science of ethnical physiology can...
17. CHAPTER VI.After the age of race discrimination comes the age of race description and classification; and, as we should expect, this second stage is not reached until the close of the Dark...
18. CHAPTER VII.“ETHNOLOGY” is a term which is often loosely used as synonymous with “Anthropology,” to cover the whole field of the science of man. It was in this sense that it first came into...
19. CHAPTER VIII.DR. JOHNSON was not in advance of his time in anthropological matters. While he was gibing at Lord Monboddo for his belief in man’s simian affinities, he was also making a prono...
20. CHAPTER IX.THE history of that branch of Ethnology which is concerned with the handicrafts of man is very brief. Specimens of the arts and crafts of various races had long been collected i...
21. CHAPTER X.THOSE branches of cultural anthropology which deal with comparative sociology and magico-religious data are sometimes designated as “ethnology.” It frequently happens that stude...
22. CHAPTER XI.LINGUISTICS as a department of Anthropology may be regarded from many points of view. To the evolutionist language forms one of the tests dividing the Hominidæ from the other an...
23. CHAPTER XII.WE have seen that in its beginning the science of man was little more than a branch of zoology, and that his structural characters were the first to attract attention and to for...