Abstract
ANTHROPOLOGY, the science of man—a proud Jr. name indeed! But, alas, there is little at present but the name which stands for the unity of this science. Its subject matter it has to share with anatomy, biology, theories of heredity and variation, geology, sociology, and social psychology. Its methods are borrowed from several natural and humanistic sciences. Its aim and scope seem at first but arbitrarily claimed and loosely circumscribed by man's excessive conceit about his own importance as a central object of study. After all, man is physically but one animal species among others, while his soul has been for a long time already in the keeping of another science- that of psychology.
Die Kultur der Gegenwart: ihre Entwicklung und ihre Ziele.
Herausgegeben von Paul Hinneberg. Dritter Teil: Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften, Medizin. Fünfte Abteilung: Anthropologie. Unter Leitung von G. Schwalbe und E. Fischer. Pp. viii + 684 + 29 Tafeln. (Leipzig und Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1923). 22s. 7d.; cloth, 27s. 4d.
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MALINOWSKI, B. The Unity of Anthropology. Nature 112, 314–317 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112314a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112314a0
