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Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, but it is approached directly in his extensive but less well-known writings on physical and cultural anthropology, the philosophy of history, and education which are gathered in the present volume. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question 'What is the human being?' should be philosophy's most fundamental concern, and Anthropology, History, and Education can be seen as effectively presenting his philosophy as a whole in a popular guise

Relationships between anthrop & history have varied signif'ly with diff anthrop'al trends & Sch's of thought, such as evolutionism, diffusionism, functionalism or structuralism. Over the past decade, the methods of soc anthrop have been applied to the establishment of historiographic data for peoples whose traditional outlook did not include the idea of 'objective' history. Such anthropol'al work is helped by the use of auxiliary techniques & by the development of certain forms of historical consciousness in traditional societies. Yet the anthrop'st must put himself at the service of historiography & cannot take the place of the historian. HA.

Book reviewed in this article:The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period. Leonard Y. Andaya. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. 306 pp. Constituting the Minangkabau: Peasants, Culture, and Modernity in Colonial Indonesia. Joel S. Kahn. Providence: Berg Publishers, 1993. 314 pp.