Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on. — Lily King Copy Share Image
Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms. — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
“My anthropological back gets raised hackles with simple worlds and simple conflicts. Nothing's simple. Nothing ever was.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The image is not a closed field of knowledge; it is a whirling, centrifugal field. It is not a field of knowledge… — Georges Didi-Huberman Copy Share Image
Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Members of many lowland Indian societies play flutes or sing for that number of hours for long periods. Yet we know much… — Anthony Seeger Copy Share Image
“It must be said that almost all primitive people think themselves divinely wrought, singled out and special. Often their names translate simply… — A.A. Gill Copy Share Image
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel… — Lily King Copy Share Image
We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas 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
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
“Something is indeed returning today - but the conventional wisdom that this is religion making its reappearance is insufficient to satisfy critical… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Anthropological theory assumes that exposure in a treeless situation where all escape upwards was cut off led to the invention of myths.… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
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