The Chinese People Need Anthropology

Abstract

Anthropology is an important discipline. It is a discipline that belongs to the natural sciences and also to the social sciences. In our country, for many years anthropology has been mistakenly understood to be just a natural science, that is, as physical anthropology, or was even further confined to paleoanthropology, the discipline that studies human fossils. In fact, prior to Liberation, anthropological studies in our country included both physical and cultural anthropology, and anthropology was respected as a very important social science whose objects, content, and materials of study were extremely rich and abundant. In recent years in foreign countries there has been an increasingly intimate link between the science of anthropology and the social life of the people. The scope of the study of anthropology has been continuously expanded and a number of derivative branch sciences have been developed. All this indicates that anthropology occupies a most significant place in the realm of science. In the last few years, there has been a recovery of anthropological studies in our country.