Opinions on Historical Anthropology

Historical anthropology is a new marginal discipline of cultural anthropology and it is quite often confused with history study because of its focus on the study of ethnic cultures in history and frequent use of historical documents. However, historical anthropology has its own field and deserves a new subject with the feature of cultural anthropological tradition. Its nature and value cannot be replaced by any other disciplines and its development will not destroy them. Enough attention should be paid to the introduction, study and understanding of historical anthropology so as to facilitate the formation of Chinese historical anthropology.