100-213), anthropology is a historical science, which puts it in the distinguished company of cosmology, geology, evolutionary biology, and genetic linguistics. Who is the scientist of anthropology? In the United States, anthropology has traditionally been divided into the four field approach developed by Franz Boas in the early 20th century:Read More →
In the West, the scientific aspect of philosophy, or abstract general thought about the natural and human worlds, began in ancient Greece in the seventh century b.c.e., with inquiry about the earth and the cosmos by the so-called Pre-Socratic philosophers, many of whom continued to flourish in Socrates’ time. WhereRead More →
Because these androgynous males were commonly married to a masculine man, or had sex with men, and the masculine females had feminine women as wives, the term berdache had a clear homosexual connotation. Both the Spanish settlers in Latin America and the English colonists in North America condemned them asRead More →