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[48] Rossi, Anthropological Anomalies in their relations to social conditions and to degeneration.
CHAPTER VII
TECHNICAL PART
In a book the technical part can serve only to point the way, because the acquirement of technique demands practical experience.
The technique of anthropology consists, essentially, of two principal branches: 1. the gathering of anthropological data by means of measurements (anthropometry) and by inspection (anthroposcopy); 2. the formulation of laws based on these anthropological data.
Anthropometry requires a knowledge: a. of anthropometric instruments; b. of the anatomical points of contact to which the instruments must be applied.
For beginners it will be found helpful to mark upon the subject the anthropometric points of contact by means of a dermographic pencil.
In anthropology so large a number of measurements are taken, both from life and from skeletons, that a minute description of them all would demand a separate treatise. We shall limit ourselves to indicating such measurements as it has been found of practical utility to take in school.