ABSTRACT
Anthropology is, however, an overlapping study with bridges into the physical, biological, and social sciences and into the humanities. Anthropology is something more than brooding over skulls or hunting for "the missing link", and it has a greater usefulness than providing means to tell one's friends from the apes. To most people, however, anthropology still means measuring skulls, treating little pieces of broken pottery with fantastic care, and reporting the outlandish customs of savage tribes. Anthropology grew out of experience with primitives and the tools of the trade are unusual because they were forged in this peculiar workshop. Anthropology has also always had with it the romantics, those who have taken it up because the lure of distant places and exotic people was strong upon them. The lure of the strange and far has a peculiar appeal for those who are dissatisfied with themselves or who do not feel at home in their own society.
