In its inception, physical anthropology was a pure science in the - TopicsExpress

Jon Marks

In its inception, physical anthropology was a pure science in the sense of being completely useless. As an avocation of anatomists and zoologists, it concerned itself principally with evolutionary origins, and indulged a somewhat ghoulish preoccupation with osseous remains. In the hands of myopic specialists it tended to an industrious but unintelligent accumulation of metric data relating to the gross dimensions of bones or of living subjects, together with exhaustive description of the minutiae of anatomical variations, lacking point and precision. The realization of the possibilities of physical anthropology as an applied science is as yet incomplete even among its practitioners.... However, it is now becoming clear that anthropology cannot be dismembered without sacrificing its potentialities as an applied science which is at once biological and social. -Earnest Hooton, Proc. Am . Phil. Soc., 1935

Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:21:46 +0000

In its inception, physical anthropology was a pure science in the - TopicsExpress

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