“You are not Flesh & Blood – You are the Master of It” - Drø the Finder –” — H.D. Rennerfeldt Copy Share Image
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The application of anthropology to corporations and businesses helps to understand how staffs do things, as well as what they aren't doing,… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In America, Amazon competes with yahoo and Google by competing with a gas station. Imagine if every price in QT was the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating… — James Ferguson Copy Share Image
I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
“Relatedness - whether imagined or lived out face-to-face - is a social fact, and it is not limited to "kinship" as mapped… — Naomi Leite Copy Share Image
Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in.… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“I began to realize something fundamental about field-work: that it is useless to concentrate exclusively on one's 'research project.' One has to… — Benedict Anderson Copy Share Image
“Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline,… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
“Studying anthropology tends t change the way you look at the world. It leaves a distinctive chip in your brain, or lens… — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image
“THE attention of the writer having been called to the fact that all Indo-Germanic nations have worshipped crucified Saviours, an investigation of… — Sarah E. Titcomb Copy Share Image
“It appears now to be universally admitted that, before the exile, the Israelites had no belief in rewards and punishments after death,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“One could imagine that a group of anthropologists and scientists sent off to study a previously uncontacted Amazon tribe today might be… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Instead of looking for explanations for the fact of inequality, anthropologists should look for the explanation for the notion of equality.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
“Morphological anthropology applied to the physical study of children, is also a strong element in the growth of the new pedagogy.” — Montessori Maria Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image