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Julius Caesar the Anthropologist 凱薩大帝：名副其實的人類學家 撰文及考題設計 British Council 英協教育中心 Brian Welter 中譯 陳怡君 （中央社編譯） 圖 Wikimedia Commons
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Anthropologists are social scientists who, when
in what was called a Triumvirate. He had many administrative successes and was well-regarded.
they began their discipline over a hundred years ago,
就某種程度而言，人類對於其他人群與社會的
tended to be interested in far-away cultures that no
好奇心是出自於天性，意味著人類學家始終存在。
American or European had ever before encountered.
而歷史上最有名與最有趣的歷史人物之一凱薩大
Some even ventured to Pacific Islands and wrote
帝（100-44 BC），也是早期的人類學家嗎？出身貴
famous accounts of these peoples.
族世家的凱薩先是成為士兵的統帥，之後成
人類學家在100多年前即開展了他們的研
為將領並與包含龐貝在內的兩位領袖共同
究：他們對在美國或歐洲文化尚未滲入的遠古
統御帝國，當時稱作「三人執政團」。他擁
文化有極大興趣，有些更冒險進入太平
有許多政績而備受推崇。
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洋島嶼，寫出對這些島民的記述。
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I n a w a y, h u m a n s ’ n a t u r a l c u r io sit y a b o u t o t h e r hu m a n s and societies means there have
Ju s t a s nowa d ay s , a n c ie nt Rom a n military leaders, in this case Caesar and Pompey, competed for power and glory. Since his rival took troops east to
always been anthropologists.
gain more lands via conquest,
Wa s Ju l iu s C a e s a r (10 0 - 4 4
Caesar went northwest, to
BC), one of the most famous
Gaul, or modern-day France.
and interesting historical figures,
Gaul was divided among different
an early anthropologist? Born into
wa r r ior t r ibes. T hei r societ y
an aristocratic family, Caesar was
was made up of three classes, the
above all a leader of soldiers. He
religious leaders, called Druids, the
created a general and shared political
knights, and the commoners. The last
leadership of the entire empire with two others, including Pompey,
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凱薩大帝雕像。