In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline,… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University. — Bozoma Saint John 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
“What's it mean; are you determined To make modern all mankind? If so, you should be be-sermoned And brought back to healthy… — Charles C. Abbott Copy Share Image
Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of… — Anonymous 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
“Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." - Alfred L. Kroeber” — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
“When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said: In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing… — Stanley A. Freed Copy Share Image
How strange is that the one who said that he loves u the most in the world and cant live without you… — Sidhi Sahrma Copy Share Image
Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to… — Aleksandra Mir 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
“People don't like to think of themselves as sinful. They don't want to believe that they are selfish, evil people who would… — Douglas Beaumont Copy Share Image
I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I love Anthropology for kitchenware - they make the best bowls, plates, cutlery etc. — Ella Woodward Copy Share Image
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety… — Clifford Geertz 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
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image