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A PERUSAL of this book will convince most people that the terminology and classification of the subject-matter of anthropology is at present in a state of almost hopeless confusion. In England, early authorities like Hunt defined anthropology as the science of the whole nature of man, including the study of his anatomical, physiological and psychological characters, and this logical view has fortunately been maintained among the majority of anthropologists in this country up to the present day. In France also the original view, as expressed by Pruner Bey, was that anthropology embraces the study of man in time and space, and the great Broca took a very similar view of the scope of the science. In Germany, however, a beginning of the descent from this clear and reasonable definition of the science appears to have been made in 1879 by Muller, who divided anthropology into (i) physical anthropology and (2) psychic anthropology, and this cleavage was made wider by Grosse, who in 1894 completely separated the second of Miiller's subdivisions from anthropology and gave it a new designation, namely, ethnology, or the culture of races.
The Scope and Content of the Science of Anthropology.
By Juul Dieserud. Pp. 200. (Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co.; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price 8s. 6d. net.
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G., J. The Scope and Content of the Science of Anthropology . Nature 79, 484 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079484a0
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