ABSTRACT
The suggestion that ‘Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities’ is generally attributed to the renowned American cultural anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. The integrated BSc Anthropology degree was developed in 2010 by Professors Ann Maclarnon and Garry Marvin, primarily as a response to the existing combined honours degrees in Social Anthropology and Biological Anthropology taught on different campuses. The fear was that without the rigours of a scientific approach, much of anthropology is reduced to journalism and travel writing. The merger builds on the strength of Biological Anthropology’s high RAE2008 results. It also took place in the context of the start of a new ‘A’ level qualification in Anthropology supported by the Royal Anthropological Institute. Ananta Giri uses anthropology and sociology disciplines as examples of contrived disciplinary territories within a modern academic division of labour.
