Herodotus worked in linguistic Both physically and culturally, the world The study of Native Americans and their

He was without a doubt the greatest linguist

anthropology when he published a brief
account of the ethnic origins of the Carians
and Caunians in southern Asia Minor,
keeping in view the dialects they spoke.
The many different peoples of the
American continents, as well as the
languages they spoke, caught the
imagination of European intellectuals
throughout the Age of Discovery.
Nonetheless, linguistic anthropology in the
contemporary sense is a relatively new
area of study that emerged in the United
States and is mostly practiced by
academics from North America.
was essentially a well-known area. The
specifics were still being worked out, but no
one anticipated to discover a new
hemisphere or an undiscovered
civilizations. Scholars were surprised as to
why there was so much human diversity.
People had dramatically varied
appearances, spoke various languages, and
had significantly distinct faiths, marital
practices, and other customs. One of the
most important intellectual and scientific
problems of the day was to attempt to
explain the historical and current variety of
race, language, and culture.
languages interested both prominent
and anthropologist of the first half of the
Americans and a number of European
twentieth century. His groundbreaking
explorers who journeyed across the western
Language (1921), which is still in print today,
United States throughout the nineteenth
was one of the first linguistics works produced
century. Some of them began collecting and
for a general readership. Sapir was possibly
publishing vital data about Native Americans
the most productive anthropologist of all time,
and their languages and cultures when the
with almost 7,000 pages of work gathered in a
Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of (American)
(so far) nine-volume collection (with fourteen
Ethnology was established in 1879. The first
volumes in the series being projected). He
director was John Wesley Powell (1834-1902),
specialized in Native American languages,
who is well renowned for being the first
working on Yana, Wishram, Chinook, Navajo,
person to run the Colorado River the whole
Nootka, and Paiute, to name a few. He was,
length of the Grand Canyon. Powell
nonetheless, one of the most prominent
established a taxonomy of American Indian
general academics of his day, influencing
languages north of Mexico in 1891, which is
anthropology, linguistics, and psychology.

5th century 19th century

20th century (1884-1939)
BCE
(1743-1826), (1858-1942)

Thomas Jefferson was a linguist who gathered
Native American vocabulary. "A great mystery
has arisen from where the aboriginals of
America originated," Jefferson wrote in his Notes
on the State of Virginia (1787), and then
provided the following suggestion. "If
vocabularies of all the languages spoken in North
and South America were created and deposited
in all public libraries, it would provide
opportunities for those skilled in the languages
of the old world to compare them with these,
now or at any time in the future, and thus to
construct the best evidence of the derivation of
this part of the human race" (Jefferson 1944:
225-226).
The nonliterate native groups, whom Franz Boas The "Father of American Biological anthropologists examine the link
others regarded "primitive" or Anthropology" and “The Father of Modern between culture and disease, nonhuman
"savage," were the focus of early Anthropology”. primate behavior (such as chimps and gorillas),
anthropologists. These lowly • "If we were to select the most intelligent, gene pool frequencies, and dietary patterns,
beginnings are still reflected in imaginative, energetic, and emotionally among other things. They also look for skeletal
common perceptions of stable third of mankind, all races would be remains associated with human evolution in
anthropologists as individuals who present." certain parts of the world. Cultural
provide museums with exotic • Boas is the early-twentieth-century scholar anthropologists haven't only studied tribal
specimens from far-flung countries or most responsible for discrediting the then- communities, peasant villages, or bands of
dig up the relics of former human life dominant scientific theories of racial hunter-gatherers in far-flung corners of the
and cultures. Many modern superiority. globe for a long time. Today, many people work
anthropologists, on the other hand, • It was Boas who gave modern in postindustrial contemporary civilizations like
examine their own civilizations, and anthropology its rigorous scientific Japan and the United States, as well as those in
some of their conclusions and methodology. Europe. This is undoubtedly correct: if
observations are eye-opening. • Wrote 1930-1940 anthropology is genuinely the study of humanity,
it must be concerned with everyone.
 Christ The King College de Maranding
Maranding, Lala, Lanao del Norte
Region X
Name: Jelou D. Abad Course: BSED Major in English
Date: 01/02/22

Activity: Based on your readings on the History of Anthropology, make a creative history timeline.