Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history,… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“Anthropology at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people,… — Lily King Copy Share Image
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“You are not Flesh & Blood – You are the Master of It” - Drø the Finder –” — H.D. Rennerfeldt Copy Share Image
I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
“The soul is a mystery. Scientists and Theologians constantly butt heads on the soul’s definitive and can’t come to grips with its… — H.D. Rennerfeldt Copy Share Image
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could… — Thomas Hylland Eriksen Copy Share Image
Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does… — Ray Birdwhistell Copy Share Image
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them. — Kent V. Flannery Copy Share Image
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
