Anthropology and the Classics - Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford #267190

Anthropology and the Humanities — on verbal grounds one might suppose them coextensive yet in practice they divide the domain of human culture between them. The types of human culture are, in fact, reducible to two, a simpler and a more complex, or, as we are wont to say (valuing our own achievements, I doubt not, rightly), a lower and a higher. By established convention Anthro pology occupies itself solely with culture of the Simpler or lower kind. The Humanities, on the other hand — those humanizing studies that, for us at all events, have their parent source in the literatures of Greece and Rome — concentrate on whatever is most constitutive and characteristic of the higher life of society.