Antropoloji tarihçesi: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih - Coğrafya Fakültesi özelinde fizik antropolojiden sosyal antropolojiye geçiş.

This article, which deals with the history of anthropology and the development of the anthropology department in the Faculty of Language and History - Geography, discusses the development of anthropology from a global perspective; the prominent research in the phase ranging from physical anthropology to social anthropology with the establishment of the anthropology department at Ankara University Faculty of Language and History - Geography and in addition to all these, it includes a brief history of anthropology and social anthropology based on the work of our professors. Social anthropology, together with other social sciences, tried to interpret the communities defined as “wild”, “distant” and “the other” at the end of the nineteenth century. Therefore, it is seen that the roots of social anthropology were laid in England, the United States of America, and France and were shaped in line with the interests and needs of the modern world. Academic anthropological research in Turkey started with the establishment of the Turkish Anthropology Institute in the Faculty of Medicine of Istanbul University in 1925 with the instruction of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Although researchers focused on physical anthropology studies when academic anthropological studies first emerged in Turkey, this situation changed over time. The systematic study of social anthropological research began around the 1940s, and the majority of these studies consist of fieldwork conducted in rural areas of Turkey. This article discusses the recognition of social anthropology in the historical process, the process of coming to the present day, the prominent research which points out the various stages of development of the anthropology department of Ankara University Faculty of Language and History - Geography, and professors who carried out this research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]