I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide,… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“What's it mean; are you determined To make modern all mankind? If so, you should be be-sermoned And brought back to healthy… — Charles C. Abbott Copy Share Image
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and… — Clyde Kluckhohn Copy Share Image
I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
“[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.” — Pascal Boyer Copy Share Image
“People don't like to think of themselves as sinful. They don't want to believe that they are selfish, evil people who would… — Douglas Beaumont Copy Share Image
I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
“What is even more astonishing is that the entire science of wayfinding is based on dead reckoning. You only know where you… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for… — Lily King Copy Share Image
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen as a peculiarly perverse example of Calvinist… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made… — Spiros Doikas Copy Share Image
“My specialty is cultural anthropology,” the Professor said. “I gave up being a scholar some time ago, but I’m still permeated with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My first job was actually as a social worker. And then later, I got my PhD in anthropology. And I've always been… — Patricia Wright Copy Share Image
When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“They speak as if it was some how beneficial to an African to work for them instead for himself and to make… — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
“Ri, here's a question for you,” Stella started. She opened it up to everyone else, as well. “When do your kids stop… — Rebekah Martin Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them. — Kent V. Flannery Copy Share Image
“Both freethought and anthropology are symptoms of the same underlying condition - the relative condition, the condition of difference.” — David Eller Copy Share Image
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive… — Émile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. — Jane Howard Copy Share Image
Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“will’ is ‘character’, but it is character ‘completely freed from everything which may be only empirical and thus belong to anthropology’.” — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and… — Alex Blumberg Copy Share Image
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