“These people know the reality and laugh at it. Such laughter has little concern with what is funny. It is often bitter… — Elenore Smith Bowen Copy Share Image
Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“[W]e might do better here to think of culture as fashion. And in fashion, of course, the key is not wearing a… — James Ferguson Copy Share Image
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Sometimes zer are feelings that can't be put into word, how long the phrase may be, it won't be able to hold… — Yudish Copy Share Image
“From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen as a peculiarly perverse example of Calvinist… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide,… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy* * some are dumb, too, but that’s… — Gregory Cochran Copy Share Image
“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with… — Philippe Descola Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“People who have made comparative studies of many different societies, know that when status is ascribed, rather than achieved, individual efforts towards… — Dor Bahadur Bista Copy Share Image
“Fate is What You are Born With; Free-Will is What You Do About It” - Drø the Finder –” — H.D. Rennerfeldt Copy Share Image
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“See,' said (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 'how the leaves of this small plant stand forth extended to bathe themselves in the light. ...… — Russell Lord Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
“One could imagine that a group of anthropologists and scientists sent off to study a previously uncontacted Amazon tribe today might be… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
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