Social Anthropology

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Social sanctions and laws. 3. Family, marriage and kinship. 4. Review of society and culture. 5. Social status. 6. Environment and human activities. 7. Social economic systems. Index.

"Foundations of anthropology were laid by the Greeks. The founder of the anthropology was born in 460 B.C. Evans Pritchard by comparing social anthropology with sociology brings out a clear definition of social anthropology. Social anthropology has primitive societies as its subject-matter. According to some historians the origin of social anthropology is traced to David Hume and Immanuel Kant, who were the first philosophers to define social anthropology. Some authors believed that the origin of the family was a kind of sexual promiscuity or group marriage which existed in early society. But as modern anthropological and sociological research shows neither promiscuity nor group marriage is to be found in any type of society." (jacket)