“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
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly. — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My… — Lily King 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
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous 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
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now.… — Clifford Geertz 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
Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences,… — Patricia Leavy 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
“Visitors say, 'Real shrunken heads! Wow! How were they made? By slitting the skin, taking out the skull and brains and steaming… — Frances Larson 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
The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History… — Anonymous 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
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
