Türkiye’de Antropolojik Bilginin Yetersizliği Sorunu Ve Öğretmenler
The Problem of Inefficacy of Anthropological Knowledge in Turkey And Teachers

Summary/Abstract: Anthropology, like archeology and history, was a science that was supported by Turkish Republic, in accordance with the process of nation-state construction and the programme of westernization, in 1920’s and 1930’s in Turkey. In Early Republic era, anthropology, studied in mainstream pozitivist and racist paradigm of Europe, translated into Turkish, as a racescience. However after Second World War, anthropology confronted its past and gotout of that paradigm and headed towards universal and culturalrelativism yet the same rapid changes were not observed in Turkey anthropology, due to reasons arising from internal political developments. Since 1990’s, in connection with the general change process of capitalism, although social/cultural anthropology has gradually attracted the attention of the students and the people in Turkey, compared with other social sciences, it is still the least known science. Hence we are in an age in which we witness an increasingly interest to anthropology in every professional field whose subjects are human from psychology to medicine, from politics to art. In this context, teachers’ lack of anthropological knowledge and perspective is a major problem. This article aims at to show why and how teachers must utilise more from anthropology.

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