Anthropology

Every traveller starts by believing there is nothing so perfect as his own parish. R. R. Marett argues that anthropology begins when we look beyond it—and dares to bring the same evolutionary history home.

Writing amid the early twentieth century’s debates over Darwin, Marett casts anthropology as the study of humanity across every age and region, body and soul together. Its task, he insists, is not to sort other peoples into a separate past, but to trace one history for all: civilized and so-called savage, present and ancient. Darwinism, in his account, is no fixed creed but a working hypothesis—one that asks us to see kinship through change. What might we have to reconsider when our own society becomes part of the inquiry?

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