Dr. Ralph Linton – An Important Anthropologist
If you haven’t studied Anthropology, you might want to do so. Understanding “human kind” and our various social expressions is needed more today than at any time in history. After all, what will our machines become when most of us have such a narrow view of human culture? KNOW THYSELF
What is Anthropology?
Anthropology is the study of people throughout the world, their evolutionary history, how they behave, adapt to different environments, communicate and socialise with one another. The study of anthropology is concerned both with the biological features that make us human (such as physiology, genetic makeup, nutritional history and evolution) and with social aspects (such as language, culture, politics, family and religion). Whether studying a religious community in London, or human evolutionary fossils in the UAE, anthropologists are concerned with many aspects of people’s lives: the everyday practices as well as the more dramatic rituals, ceremonies and processes which define us as human beings. A few common questions posed by anthropology are: how are societies different and how are they the same? how has evolution shaped how we think? what is culture? are there human universals? By taking the time to study peoples’ lives in detail, anthropologists explore what makes us uniquely human. In doing so, anthropologists aim to increase our understanding of ourselves and of each other.
"The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are only now...only beginning to explore the potentialities which it offers for developments in our culture outside technology, particularly in the social, political and economic fields. It is safe to predict that...such social inventions as modern-type Capitalism, Fascism, and Communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern technology." – Dr. Ralph Linton
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a brief biography of Dr. Ralph Linton
The Study Of Man
40 Great Anthropology Books That Anyone Can Appreciate
We highly recommend you read these books. They are indeed, all classics.
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