What Is an Anthropologist?

Anthropologists, based on Darwin s theory of biological evolution, study the methods of human lifestyles, the laws of humans, humans and nature, humans and animals, and the relationship between humans and plants. The word comes from the Greek anthropos (human) and logia (research), and has become a discipline since the 19th century, referring to the "anatomy" of the study of human physiology.

Anthropologist

When the word "anthropology" first appeared, before the middle of the 19th century, the "anthropologists" of the 19th century focused on subtle anatomy techniques. They often perform fast dissection and efficient autopsy in public to stimulate people's trust in them. Through the decomposition of countless corpses, these anthropologists have built up deep knowledge of the human body.

Due to the many branches of anthropology, anthropologists as individuals generally study only one or a few of them. Anthropologists are mostly engaged in college or university education, but more and more anthropologists are engaged in applied-level anthropology.

Compared with scholars in other disciplines, anthropologists study human behavior on a broader basis, and are not limited to looking at such behavior from the perspective of social science or biology. So anthropologists are better at making general observations of humans in complex biology or culture. The findings of anthropologists often question and challenge the conclusions of sociologists, psychologists, and economists. Anthropologists often play a constructive role in criticizing the social sciences.

Because archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology are traditionally subordinate to anthropology, and their research has many things in common, archaeologists, linguists, and ethnologists may also be anthropologists.

In general, anthropology understands the whole of human beings at various levels, with particular emphasis on

Bartok Bella Victor Yanos

Anthropologist Asia

China

Wu Dingliang

Wu Rukang

Huang Xianzhang

Fei Xiaotong

Yang Chengzhi

Wu Wenzao

Lin Yaohua

Li Ji

Chen Qinan

Li Yiyuan

Huang Yinggui

Japan

Tsutsui Masai Goro

Koganei Ryosei

Okazaki

Ishida Hideichiro

Obayashi Tara

Mei Fuzhong

Nakae Chie

Anthropologist Americas

United States

Lewis Henri Morgan (November 21, 1818-December 17, 1881)

Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897-July 26, 1941)

Ruth Benedict (June 5, 1887-September 17, 1948)

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901-November 15, 1978)

William Jones

Gordon Randolf Willey (March 7, 1913-2002)

Annette Barbara Weiner (February 14, 1933-December 7, 1997)

Julian Steward

Sidney Mintz (December 16, 1922-)

Eric Wolf (February 1, 1923-March 6, 1999)

Clifford Geertz (August 23, 1926-)

Renato Rosaeto

Marshall Sahlins (1930-)

Lewis Robert Binford (November 21, 1930-)

Anthropologist Continental

United Kingdom

Edward Burnett Taylor

James George Frazer (1854-1941)

Affleich Cliff-Brown

Adam Kuper

Edward Ivan-Pricha

Edmund Leach

Marilyn Strathern

Victor Turner (May 28, 1920-1983)

Gregory Bateson (May 9, 1904-1980)

France

Marcel Mauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Germany

Franz Boas (1858-1942)

Edward Sapir (1884-1939)

Poland

Bronislaw Malinowski (Bronislaw Malinowski, April 7, 1884-May 14, 1942)