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''Anthropos'' is a biannual multilingual
Schmidt always wanted to have an institution behind the journal. It took him 25 years to create the Anthropos Institute, but the
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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covering anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...
, ethnology
Ethnology (from the , meaning 'nation') is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).
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, and linguistics
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research. It was established in 1906 by Wilhelm Schmidt.
Originally intended to publish research by Catholic missionaries
Missionary work of the Catholic Church has often been undertaken outside the geographically defined parishes and dioceses by religious orders who have people and material resources to spare, and some of which specialized in missions. Eventually, p ...
, the journal quickly became one of the most influential publications in the fields of ethnology and anthropology, while maintaining its religious study origins. In 1931 Schmidt, Martin Gusinde, , and Wilhelm Koppers founded the Anthropos Institute, which became the journal's publisher.
History
When Schmidt got the first issue of Anthropos out in February 1906 (then at nearVienna
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in Austria
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), it was praised not only by the religious scholars, but also by such an anti-clerical
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figure as the French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep
Arnold van Gennep, full name Charles-Arnold Kurr van Gennep (23 April 1873 – 7 May 1957), was a Dutch– German- French ethnographer and folklorist.
Biography
He was born in Ludwigsburg, in the Kingdom of Württemberg (since 1871, part of t ...
. Van Gennep confirmed his initial opinion a year later, stating that the four issues printed so far "place this journal among the ethnographic publications of the first rank".
The initial name of the publication was ''Anthropos - Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde'' ("International Review of Ethnology and Linguistcs"), as suggested by Paul Huber (then owner of ) and Karl Muth; Schmidt himself considered Latin names like ''Omnes Gentes'' ("All Peoples").
The first issue contained (on 163 pages) articles in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin; more languages were added later. However, in the beginning of the 21st century English predominates.
Schmidt always wanted to have an institution behind the journal. It took him 25 years to create the Anthropos Institute, but the interbellum
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conditions limited the possibilities, so a regular editorial structure was only put into place in 1962, when Anthropos moved to in Germany. In the meantime, after the Anschluss
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in 1938, Anthropos was operating out of Posieux in Switzerland
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(for more than 60 years the printing continued to be done in Swiss Fribourg
or is the capital of the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Canton of Fribourg, Fribourg and district of Sarine (district), La Sarine. Located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine, on the Swiss Plateau, it is a major economic, adminis ...
, even after the move of editorial staff to Germany).
See also
* Anthropos phonetic alphabetReferences
Sources
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