“[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.” — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. — Gregory Keyes Copy Share Image
“There is no black history month, the entire human race calendar is black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is the character of lived experience I want to explore, not the nature of man.” — Michael D. Jackson Copy Share Image
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions. — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'. — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects. — John Dee Copy Share Image
Sometimes zer are feelings that can't be put into word, how long the phrase may be, it won't be able to hold… — Yudish Copy Share Image
“An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does… — Ray Birdwhistell Copy Share Image
If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“It is characteristic of the ethnocentrism of anthropology that whereas the rationality of claims by African and other primitive diviners to be… — Wyatt MacGaffey Copy Share Image
Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships… — Sherry Ortner Copy Share Image
“Visitors say, 'Real shrunken heads! Wow! How were they made? By slitting the skin, taking out the skull and brains and steaming… — Frances Larson Copy Share Image
Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could… — Thomas Hylland Eriksen Copy Share Image
“Faced with an ecological crisis whose roots lie in this disengagement, in the separation of human agency and social responsibility from the… — Tim Ingold Copy Share Image
“In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions… — American Anthropological Association Copy Share Image
Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls. — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“They’re people,’ he said. ‘Full marks for comparative anthropology.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
“All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.” — robert owen Copy Share Image
I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world. — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
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