The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for…

“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of…

— Christopher Ryan

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag

“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.”

— Bill Gaede

Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one…

— Arthur Kleinman

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

— Joan D. Vinge

Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow,…

— John Carroll

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.

— Nick Rhodes

When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced…

— Lily King

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

— Michael Brian Schiffer

“All social interactions require some loss of freedom.”

— Erol Ozan

“Morphological anthropology applied to the physical study of children, is also a strong element in the growth of the new pedagogy.”

— Montessori Maria

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

— Anonymous

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

— Jane Howard

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been…

— Clifford Geertz