This article is actually an outline of history of anthropology in Iran. In part, it traces the development of the field and the problems that some of its practitioners have been endeavoring to overcome. In part, it recounts some of the experiences of the author and the frustrations she and others encountered in trying to broaden the scope of the permissible range of study of anthropology.The ministry of public instructions has made its basic principlelessIt propagates in all ways ignorance and ingratitudeOn the one hand it does not appreciate the knowledge of those who knowOn the other it builds the museum of ethnology.