The process of cognition of the research object of sports anthropology is roughly bounded by the year 2000： it was “national sports” before that year, or “primitive ecological body movement” after that year. The re-search object of sports anthropology has 4 characteristics of changing：from whole to local, from deductive to em-pirical, from metaphorical to prominent, from theoretical to practical. The research object of sports anthropology should be“ghost-killing primitive ecological body movement”, differentiated from“god-communicating...
