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The chapters in Brill’s Companion to Classics and Early Anthropology build a nuanced picture of the relationship between classics and the burgeoning field of anthropology from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.The chapters in Brill’s Companion to Classics and Early Anthropology
explore key points of interaction between classics and anthropology
from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Ancient Greece and
Rome played varying roles in early anthropological thinking, from the
observations of colonial officials and missionaries, through the
ethnography and evolutionary ethnology of the late nineteenth century,
and into the professionalized social sciences of the twentieth century.
The chapters illuminate these roles and uncover an intellectual history
of fission and fusion, exposing common interests and opposing
methodologies, shared theories and conflicting datasets, close
collaborations and adversarial estrangements. In augmenting and
reevaluating this history, the volume offers a new and nuanced picture
of the early formative relationship between the two disciplines.