Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
SCOPE OF ANTHROPOLOGY :
INTRODUCTION
COVERAGE
BRANCHES
RESEARCH STRATAGY
SUMMARY
VALUE OF ANTHROPLOGY :
INTRODUCTION
AS A DISCPLINE OF ACADEMIC VALUE
AS A SCIENCE OF PRACTICAL VALUE
AS A SCIENCE OF GENERAL VALUE SUMMARY
MEANING OF ANTHROPOLPOGY :
ETYMOLOGICAL MEANING : "science of human kind "
Aristotle (328-322b.c) coined the term anthropology .the word
"anthropology is from greek word :"anthropos" meaning man and logos
meaning science "
the etymological meaning of anthropology is the "science of man "
This etymological meaning has undergone a change in 1960
&1970.When the women liberation movement in USA rightly pointed
out that anthroplogy is the" study of men "but not women.
Then anthropologists with tongue in cheek ;denied anthropology as
the" study of man embracing women ".The women liberation
movement found this revised definition inappropriate .Therefore
anthropologists paid attention to the use of gender free nouns such as
humans ,human beings human kind rather than mankind .He and His
when referring to the generic category of human kind does not imply
any quality of gender discrimination.The etymological meaning of the
word anthropology has been changed from the science of man to the
science of human kind .
SCIENTIFIC MEANING :
The etymological meaning itself provides an accurate basis for the
scientific meaning of the word "anthropolgy".However,the scientific