Evolution and development of social Anthropology as a discipline or field of study and the phases of anthropology
Anthropology traces its roots to an ancient Greek historical and philosophical writings about human nature and the organisation of the human society. Herodotus thus a Greek historian who lived in the 400s BC,as the first thinker to write widely on concepts that would later become central to anthropology.He described the cultures of various peoples of the Persian Empire which the Greeks conquered during the first half of he 400s BC. Another historian is Ibn Khaldun and he lived in the 14th century ad and he was another early writer of ideas relevant to anthropology.He examined the environmental,sociological,psychological and economic factors that affected the development and the rise and fall of civilization. During the 15th century ad,biblical scholars dominated European thinking on questions of human origins and cultural development. These were issues of belief and promoted the idea that human existence and human diversity were the creations of God.The European explorers who were ...