Anthropology Sentence Examples

In 1907 he was elected professor of social anthropology at Liverpool.

It seems as if anthropology had in this direction reached the limits of its discoveries.

One of these, the Letter to a Professor of Anthropology, was translated without.

His book is an interesting attempt to compile a system of anthropology from the standpoint of the Christian philosophy.

He was one of the founders of the study of " Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905).

Thus geology, meteorology, oceanography and anthropology developed into distinct sciences.

I studied anthropology at the University of Amsterdam where I received a PhD in 1989.

Various other sciences, in conformity with the above definition, must be regarded as subsidiary to anthropology, which yet hold their own independent places in the field of knowledge.

The physical philosophy and anthropology which Baader, in connexion with this, unfolds in various works, is but little instructive, and coincides in the main with the utterances of Boehme.

Thomas's Crystal Gazing the history and anthropology of the subject are investigated, with modern instances.

Hobhouse's Morals in Evolution and Professor Westermarck's Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas (both published in 1906) deal with the matter from the side of anthropology.

By such preliminary labours the way was prepared for the new science of anthropology.

Quetelet's plan of defining such types will probably meet with general acceptance as the scientific method proper to this branch of anthropology.

Such comparison, though needing caution and reserve, at once proved of great value to anthropology.

Much might reasonably be expected from the sciences of archaeology and anthropology.

The following year he began teaching anthropology at Clark University.

They put a large question mark against hopes for a revived philosophical anthropology.

Another science which Virchow cultivated with conspicuous success was anthropology, which he did much to put on a sound critical basis.

Hearing about Ellison from sources at the hospital, Sandburg, a graduate student in Anthropology, shows up uninvited to help out.

Geography appealed to him as a valuable educational discipline, the joint foundation with anthropology of that " knowledge of the world " which was the result of reason and experience.

Whether this type is more conveniently designated by the word Iberian, or by some other name (" Eur-african," " Mediterranean," &c.) is a matter of comparative indifference, provided that there is no misunderstanding as to the steps by which the term Iberian attained its meaning in modern anthropology.

It thus stands in sharp contrast to the anthropology of Kant, which opposes human development conceived as the gradual manifestation of a growing faculty of rational free will to the operations of physical nature.

Since 1880 organized institutions of anthropology have taken the spade out of the hands of individual explorers in order to know the truth concerning Glacial or Pleistocene man.

For ethnological physiognomy, see amongst older authors Gratarolus, and amongst moderns the writers cited in the various textbooks on anthropology, especially Schadow, Physionomies nationales (1835) and Park Harrison, Journ.

Thus the doctrine, yielding as a definite theory of the origin of society to the evidence of history and anthropology, becomes interesting primarily as revolt against medieval and theocratic theories of the state.

In Level 2 Anthropology, you will also examine the research anthropologists are doing in developed countries.

I will also be arguing that applied anthropology can play a particular role in helping to ameliorate such problems.

The training and advice from this component will provide a sound foundation upon which to build a research program in socio-cultural anthropology.

Within this unit, students study medicine, dentistry, anatomical sciences, sports biomedicine and forensic anthropology.

The school offers majors in everything from anthropology to marine biology to marketing to juvenile justice.

Courses are available in world languages, English, writing, fine arts, theatre, math, natural sciences, anthropology, education, and political science, among others.

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Even if you have a lot of experience in your field; you'll need a wide range of experience to satisfy courses in areas such as anthropology, philosophy, or history.

In cultural anthropology, culture is sometimes defined as common set of observable traits, customs, beliefs, language, behaviors and communication within a group of people.

It falls under the three heads of anthropology, phenomenology and psychology proper.

Professor Theodor Waitz, in his Introduction to Anthropology, adduced many examples of the comparatively rapid constitutional adaptation of man to new climatic conditions.

Psychology has been drawn upon to interpret the movements of revolutions or religions, anthropology and ethnology furnish a clue to problems to which the key of documents has been lost.

The problem of ascertaining how the small number of races, distinct enough to be called primary, can have assumed their different types, has been for years the most disputed field of anthropology, the battle-ground of the rival schools of monogenists and polygenists.

His chief distinctions, however, were won in the realms of anthropology by his researches into the lives of the cave-dwellers of prehistoric times, labours which have borne fruit in his books Cave-hunting (1874); Early Man in Britain (1880);(1880); British Pleistocene Mammalia (1866-1887).

Again, the study of the evolution of human institutions from the lowest savagery to civilization is essentially a novel branch of research, though ideas derived from an unsystematic study of anthropology are at least as old as Aristotle.

He previously, in the same year, finished his treatises on the Metaphysics of Ethics, which, with his Anthropology, completed in 1798, were the last considerable works that he revised with his own hand.

To provide a sustained impetus toward the wider use of field data in teaching and learning anthropology by working with a group of institutions.

My major is in forensic anthropology with a minor in Geology.

It covers anthropology and archeology with strength in the areas of sociocultural anthropology, ethnology, and material culture.

Dr. Charlotte Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in biological anthropology at the University of Bradford.

This work is supported by skilled teams of researchers spanning the disciplines of general practice, nursing, psychology, anthropology and epidemiology.

But they are so empathetic that they can branch out into other skills, such as anthropology, and do them as well.

The overall aim of the project is to encourage critical engagement with the process of being disciplined into anthropology.

He implicitly criticized the structural functionalism of anthropology believing in the importance of personal choice.

Her research interests include museology; international indigenous policies; anthropology of art; visual anthropology.

This review, which extends, in three volumes, over the wide field of anthropology, beginning with the human frame, the soul, and their union in life, advancing to man, his mind, and the course of the world, and concluding with history, progress, and the connexion of things, ends with the same idea which was expressed in Lotze's earliest work, his Metaphysik.

These latter problems are the province of criminal anthropology and criminal sociology, sciences so called because they view crime as the outcome of anthropological and social conditions.

At the meeting of the Naturforscherversammlung at Innsbruck in 1869, he was one of the founders of the German Anthropological Society, of which he became president in the following year; and from 1869 onwards he presided over the Berlin Anthropological Society, also acting as editor of its proceedings in the Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologic. In ethnology he published a volume of essays on the physical anthropology of the Germans, with special reference to the Frisians; and at his instance a census, which yielded remarkable results, was carried out among school children throughout Germany, to determine the relative distribution of blondes and brunettes.

Geography is a synthetic science, dependent for the data with which it deals on the results of specialized sciences such as astronomy, geology, oceanography, meteorology, biology and anthropology, as well as on topographical description.

The science of geography, passed on from antiquity by Ptolemy, re-established by Varenius and Newton, and systematized by Kant, included within itself definite aspects of all those terrestrial phenomena which are now treated exhaustively under the heads of geology, meteorology, oceanography and anthropology; and the inclusion of the requisite portions of the perfected results of these sciences in geography is simply the gathering in of fruit matured from the seed scattered by geography itself.

The development of culture is to a certain extent a question of race, and although forming one species, the varieties of mandiffer in almost imperceptible gradations with a complexity defying classification (see Anthropology).

We have only vague knowledge of these early movements, laboriously gleaned from archaeology, anthropology and philology.

But his name is most closely associated with studies in anthropology and especially in heredity.

Not only this, but it appears to solve most of the outstanding conundrums in contemporary anthropology.

In the early days of anthropology, modesty was considered a function of the sheath.

Unless you are from Africa or have a reputation for being a world traveler, it is difficult to pull off the whole trendily tribal look and not appear like a freshman anthropology major with a penchant for pot and weird subtitled films.

Topics cover things like anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, and biodiversity.

His paranormal background extends more than 30 years, and he is a college professor teaching courses in parapsychology, anthropology, and many other subjects.

Anthropology treats of the mind in union with the body - of the natural soul - and discusses the relations of the soul with the planets, the races of mankind, the differences of age, dreams, animal magnetism, insanity and phrenology.

Stefansson's expedition also brought back many observations in anthropology and geology.

Of the three divisions logic is the least important; ethics is the outcome of the whole, and historically the all-important vital element; but the foundations of the whole system are best discerned in the science of nature, which deals pre-eminently with the macrocosm and the microcosm, the universe and man, including natural theology and an anthropology or psychology, the latter forming the direct introduction to ethics.

To-day anthropology is grappling with the heavy task of systematizing the vast stores of knowledge to which the key was found by Boucher de Perthes, by Lartet, Christy and their successors.

He was the author of Institutiones Physiologicae (1787), and of a Handbuck der vergleichenden Anatomie (1804), both of which were very popular and went through many editions, but he is best known for his work in connexion with anthropology, of which science he has been justly called the founder.

The great dogmatic work of the Eastern Church was the definition of that portion of the creed of Christendom which concerns theology proper - the doctrines of the essential nature of the Godhead, and the doctrine of the God head in relation with manhood in the incarnation, while it fell to the Western Church to define anthropology, or the doctrine of man's nature and needs.

We must content ourselves by referring to the progress of physical (including chemical) theory, which has led to the great generalization of the conservation of energy; to the discovery of the fundamental chemical identity of the matter of our planet and of other celestial bodies, and of the chemical relations of organic and inorganic bodies; to the advance of astronomical speculation respecting the origin of the solar system, &c.; to the growth of the science of geology which has necessitated the conception of vast and unimaginable periods of time in the past history of our globe, and to the rapid march of the biological sciences which has made us familiar with the simplest types and elements of organism; finally, to the development of the science of anthropology (including comparative psychology, philology, &c.), and to the vast extension and improvement of all branches of historical study.

It comprises five faculties (literature and philosophy, jurisprudence, mathematics, natural science and medicine), and is well equipped with zoological, mineralogical and geological museums, a physiological institute, a cabinet of anthropology, and botanical gardens.

To anthropology, however, in its more general sense as the natural history of man, ethnology and ethnography may both be considered to belong, being related as parts to a whole.