“An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds… — Mary Catherine Bateson 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
“Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that… — J.R.R. Tolkien 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
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was a big mistake for me to take a degree in anthropology anyway, because I can't stand primitive people — they're… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isnt a story of conquest and rule. Enacting it… — Daniel Quinn 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
When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'. — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
“Caligula was a pervert and a tyrant. If the Roman emperor had any redeeming qualities, they weren’t immediately obvious. Unencumbered by things… — Natalie Kyriacou 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
I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always… — George Lucas 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
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects. — John Dee Copy Share Image
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world. — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
