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
Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that's what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But these are natural limitations inherent… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“But because humans are intensely social animals, they also faced a recurring set of crucial social evolutionary challenges. These evolutionary challenges include… — Vladas Griskevicius Copy Share Image
See how exciting Anthropology is? He’s a leading expert in ancient Greece. Now you should all change your majors so that you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it… — Marilyn Strathern Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is true that one generally needs to speak to the members of the key audience for a product or service.… — Patricia L. Sunderland Copy Share Image
“What I liked in anthropology was its inexhaustible faculty of negation, its relentless definition of man, as though he were no better… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Considering the comparative lifespans of simpler tribal societies and that of the more advanced agri-urban empires of antiquity, even here in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion.… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually… — Clyde Kluckhohn Copy Share Image
“It’s that moment about two months in, when you think you’ve finally got a handle on the place. Suddenly it feels within… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Of all the modern social sciences, anthropology is the one historically most closely tied to colonialism, since it was often the case… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
That culture is a a critical resource the organization ignores. Competely mystifying. The organization continues to act as if culture were dark… — Grant David McCracken Copy Share Image
Find out what schismogenesis means. Schismogenesis is anthropology. It says relationships between people are not stable. They are either moving up or… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
“In anthropology, things were mostly Stone Age: Yanomamo, Mbuti, !Kung - Susan once had it in her mind to learn how it… — III Sullivan Mark J Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there—his wit, his skeptical mien,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image