History of anthropology in this article refers primarily to the 18th- and 19th-century precursors of modern anthropology. The term anthropology itself, innovated as a Neo-Latin scientific word during
Cannibalism among "the savages" in Brazil, as described and pictured by André Thévet in 1555
Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Sir E. B. Tylor (1832–1917), nineteenth-century British anthropologist
Ethnology is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them.
Adam František Kollár, 1779
İzmir Ethnography Museum seen from the courtyard