The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I love Anthropology for kitchenware - they make the best bowls, plates, cutlery etc. — Ella Woodward Copy Share Image
“It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Fate is What You are Born With; Free-Will is What You Do About It” - Drø the Finder –” — H.D. Rennerfeldt Copy Share Image
The last time I saw a brow that low I was watching slides in anthropology class — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography. — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University. — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
“The pure products of America go crazy... ...[] No one to witness and adjust, no one to drive the car” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or,… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A man had better study what a human being is, because he's marrying one - assuming that merely being one has not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
“Cultural transmission is a complex affair. From thiscomplexity, however, anthropology seems to have drawn the wrong conclusion: namely, that cultural transmission need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I remember taking an anthropology class in college and the professor was explaining that there is little 'sexual dimorphism' in humans. He… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with… — Philippe Descola Copy Share Image
“Before you came to live with us, our lives were as always, and we were happy. We worked, we ate, and then… — Robert Murphy Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
“These people know the reality and laugh at it. Such laughter has little concern with what is funny. It is often bitter… — Elenore Smith Bowen Copy Share Image
“I had made an early policy decision to drink the native beer despite the undoubted horrors of the process of fabrication. On… — Nigel Barley Copy Share Image
The real controversy comes with anthropologists - not all, but some - who see themselves as studying culture, and they then see… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life. — Joanna Coles Copy Share Image
For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly. — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image