What Is Anthropology?

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Excerpt from What Is Anthropology?: A Lecture Delivered in the National Museum, Washington, D. C., March 18, 1882The recording of speech, also, has had its peculiar and interesting course of life. Beginning with mere tally sticks, hunting and gambling scores, and such mnemotechnic de vices, the student may carefully thread his way through rock-carving and picture writings to hieroglyphics. The abbreviation of hieroglyphic symbols to words and syllables, and even to sound symbols took place very slowly, but the process may be traced in the older and later Egyptian and Chaldean writings. The art of printing is the last stage in the journey of graphic representation. The study of Indian pictographs, as well as the sculptures of Mexico and Central America, promises to furnish some very important chapters in the history of linguistics.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.