Sandaran Sepi Antropologi

    Prof. Dr. Koentjaraningrat. ..Begawan Antropologi Indonesia Prof. Dr. Koentjaraningrat adalah tokoh sentral dalam kelahiran dan perkembangan antropologi sebagai sebuah disiplin ilmu di Indonesia. Beliau perintis dan peletak dasar secara keilmuwan untuk pengembangan antropologi di Indonesia. Kontribusi beliau dalam terdapat dalam pengembangan prasarana pendidikan antropologi, menyiapkan dan membina tenaga pengajar dan tenaga ahli untuk memperlengkap dan mengembangkan pendidikan dan penelitian dalam antropologi; dan menyiapkan dan menyediakan untuk bahan pengajaran. Beliau tidak hanya produktif sekali menulus buku-buku acuan pendidikan antropologi serta buku dan artikel ilmiah lainnya berkenaan dengan kebudayaan, suku bangsa dan pembangunan nasional di Indonesia. Beliau juga berhasil mengembangkan sumber daya manusia berupa ahli-ahli di seluruh Indonesia yang menguasai berbagai bidang spesialisasi dalam antropologi. Etnografi  merupakan suatu kebudayaan ...

In this chapter I propose to say something, firstly, about the ideal scope of anthropology; secondly, about its ideal limitations; and, thirdly and lastly, about its actual relations to existing studies. In other words, I shall examine the extent of its claim, and then go on to examine how that claim, under modern conditions of science and education, is to be made good. Firstly, then, what is the ideal scope of anthropology? Taken at its fullest and best, what ought it to comprise?  Anthropology is the whole history of man as fired and pervaded by the idea of evolution. Man in evolution--that is the subject in its full reach. Anthropology studies man as he occurs at all known times. It studies him as he occurs in all known parts of the world. It studies him body and soul together--as a bodily organism, subject to conditions operating in time and space, which bodily organism is in intimate relation with a soul-life, also subject to those same conditions. Having an eye to such condit...