Anthropological Foundations

1 Anthropology

2 Divisions of Anthropology

33 Relation of Anthropology to
other Sciences

44 Educational implication of
Anthropology
WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY?
 Anthropology was derived from the Greek word
“antrophe” meaning man and “logy” meaning
study
 Dictionary defines anthropology as the science
that treats the origin, development, and specially
the cultural development, customs, beliefs and
etc of man.
 According to Jacob and Stern, it is the scientific
study of physical and social and cultural
development of human beings since their
appearance on earth.
 Herkovits defines it as “the science of man and its
work”
DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY
 PHYSICAL
deals with the study of man as product
of the evolutionary process. It is concerned
with man’s bodily structure
DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY
 CULTURAL
deals with man’s behavior and with ways
human beings carry out the activities of daily
living.

capable of affecting individuals' behavior

that they acquire from other members of their
species through teaching, imitation and other
forms of social transmission"
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY SUB-DIVISION
 Archeology
 Ethnology
 Linguistics
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY SUB-DIVISION
 ARCHEOLOGY
 Deals with ancient cultures and past
phases of modern civilization based on
documents, paintings, stone carvings, etc.
 ETHNOLOGY
 Treats of and describe cultures and
explains similarities and differences
 Deals with the sub-divisions of mankind,
their origins, relations, speech,
institution.
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY SUB-DIVISION
 LINGUISTIC
 concerned with man’s language, a non
literate or literate, past and present.

 Descriptive Linguistics
 Deals with classification, arrangement and study of
the features of language.
 Comparative or Historical Linguistics
 Takes up changes in language, the borrowings from
other languages, and the comparison of languages
RELATION OF ANTHROPOLOGY TO SOCIAL SCIENCES
 Sociology and anthropology are the closest
kin among the social sciences. Their
similarity is in the interest in social
organization and behavior.
 Psychology and Anthropology are both
concerned with behavior and hence have
much in common
 Physical Anthropology is related to the
biological sciences-anatomy, physiology,
embryology and genetics.
 Cultural anthropology is related to
humanistic disciplines, such as history,
literature, art and music.
 EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF
ANTHROPOLOGY
 It allows people to study how humans and
other organisms react to certain
environments.
 It gives us insight in how things work, live
and coexist.
 Through anthropology, we can determine
how things were made, live and react to
different scenarios and how different texts
and our perception of idea change us.
 EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF
ANTHROPOLOGY

 It also helps us to study the changes that

happen upon nature of from ourselves or
from other organisms.

 Along with this it shows us a great deal how

much more advanced we are to become.
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF
ANTHROPOLOGY
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF
ANTHROPOLOGY
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF
ANTHROPOLOGY
 REFERENCES
 https://www.slideshare.net/NerissaDomingo/anth
ropological-foundations-43819900
 https://www.slideshare.net/selinynielsen/historica
l-foundations-of-education?next_slideshow=1
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