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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 3 March 22, 1939

Anthropology

Anthropology

Dr. Ernest Beaglehole is giving a series of lectures on Anthropology every Tuesday at 7 p.m.

We think it necessary to state this fact, as Dr. Beaglehole's first lecture was not nearly as well attended as it ought to have been; despite the fact that the lecturer stated he was flattered by the attendance the room should have been packed to the doors.

Anthropology, the science of Man, is one of the most important of the sciences, because so many of the other sciences depend upon it for important data. Economics, psychology, political science, education, ethics—almost every important body of thought must go to anthropology for comparative purposes and as a basis for its teachings.

Dr. Beaglehole's lectures promise to be extremely informative, and every student who thinks should make a point of taking this course, which is tree to all except freshers. Dr. Beaglehole's quiet, unassuming style, coupled with the driest humour we have ever had the pleasure or listening to make his lectures entertaining as well as useful. We will remember for a long time his joke about the future of the cow cockies.

After a brief introduction showing the nature and scope or the study. Dr. Beaglehole gave an interesting historical survey of the science or anthropology, discussing the reasons which first led men to study the habits or their fellows.

The various methods of approach were the [unclear: scussed]—racial characteristics, language, social anthropology or ethnology, and archaeology. The lectures obviously could not cover all branches of the science, so the most important branch, ethnology, would be covered by the twenty lectures.

Dr. Beaglehole is admirably qualified to speak on the subject: he has written an excellent treatise on the habits and customs of the Pukapukas, a native race on a small coral atoll in the Pacific. Last Christmas he visited Samoa, in order to investigate the customs of the natives.

So remember next Tuesday—7 p.m.. in Room C.1.