tailieunhanh - ANTHROPOLOGY

"Bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, are these half-brutish prehistoric brothers. Girdled about with the immense darkness of this mysterious universe even as we are, they were born and died, suffered and struggled. Given over to fearful crime and passion, plunged in the blackest ignorance, preyed upon by hideous and grotesque delusions, yet steadfastly serving the profoundest of ideals in their fixed faith that existence in any form is better than non-existence, they ever rescued triumphantly from the jaws of ever-imminent destruction the torch of life which, thanks to them, now lights the world. | ANTHROPOLOGY BY . MARETT . READER IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AUTHOR OF THE THRESHOLD OF RELIGION ETC. NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY LONDON WILLIAMS AND NORGATE CONTENTS CHAP. I SCOPE OF ANTHROPOLOGY II ANTIQUITY OF MAN III RACE IV ENVIRONMENT V LANGUAGE VI SOCIAL ORGANIZATION VII LAW VIII RELIGION IX MORALITY X MAN THE INDIVIDUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh are these half-brutish prehistoric brothers. Girdled about with the immense darkness of this mysterious universe even as we are they were born and died suffered and struggled. Given over to fearful crime and passion plunged in the blackest ignorance preyed upon by hideous and grotesque delusions yet steadfastly serving the profoundest of ideals in their fixed faith that existence in any form is better than non-existence they ever rescued triumphantly from the jaws of ever-imminent destruction the torch of life which thanks to them now lights the world for us. How small indeed seem individual distinctions when we look back on these overwhelming numbers of human beings panting and straining under the pressure of that vital want And how inessential in the eyes of God must be the small surplus of the individual s merit swamped as it is in the vast ocean of the common merit of mankind dumbly and undauntedly doing the fundamental duty and living the heroic life We grow humble and reverent as we contemplate the prodigious spectacle. WILLIAM JAMES in Human Immortality. ANTHROPOLOGY CHAPTER I SCOPE OF ANTHROPOLOGY In this chapter I propose to say something firstly about the ideal scope of anthropology secondly about its ideal limitations and thirdly and lastly about its actual relations to existing studies. In other words I shall examine the extent of its claim and then go on to examine how that claim under modern conditions of science and education is to be made good. Firstly then what is the ideal scope of anthropology Taken at its fullest and best what .