学科发展到一定的时候，为了给学科内外的人士对学科的发展有一个基本的了解，以便有一个共同的讨论参照物，就会有人出来为学科写史。人类学和民族学自然也不会例外。本世纪以来，有关西方人类学和民族学史的著作比较著名的就有哈登（Ａ．Ｃ．Ｈａｄｄｏｎ）的《人类学史... When the disciplines develop to a certain extent, in order to have a basic understanding of the development of disciplines for those inside and outside the disciplines so that there is a common reference point for discussion, someone will come out to write history for the discipline. Anthropology and ethnography are no exception. Since the beginning of this century, the famous book on the history of Western anthropology and ethnology has been A.C. Haddon’s "History of Anthropology ...