ANTROPOLOJİNİN KONUSU VE ALANI*

Abstract

The new era in anthropology is specified with the discovery of the new approaches, benefitting from historical methods and with the development of unhistorical methods. Both approaches have eventually increased the interests in cultural processes and generalisation studies, or statutes related to cultures. The researchers of historical approach tend to study the culture, appearing in any time and any place, as a science whereas the researchers of unhistorical approach focus on what science of cultures is supposed to be in its process of development, and on societies individually and the features of such societies. This study discusses anthropology, the major problem of anthropology, biological anthropology, social and cultural anthropology, the historical bases of anthropology, the relations of anthropology with the other sciences and anthropological applications.