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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“A bare two years after Vasco da Gama’s voyage a Portuguese fleet led by Pedro Alvarez Cabral arrived on the Malabar coast.… — Amitav Ghosh 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class. — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. — Michael Brian Schiffer Copy Share Image
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As far as his father was concerned, “we were informants,” Jonathan said, borrowing a term from anthropology. Dinner conversations could at times… — Ariel Sabar Copy Share Image
As an anthropology major, I wanted to understand the cultural significance of poverty - why it exists and why some countries can… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.” — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
