Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan Copy Share Image
Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“will’ is ‘character’, but it is character ‘completely freed from everything which may be only empirical and thus belong to anthropology’.” — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls. — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's… — George Amos Dorsey Copy Share Image
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships… — Sherry Ortner Copy Share Image
Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.” — Pascal Boyer Copy Share Image
“Considering the comparative lifespans of simpler tribal societies and that of the more advanced agri-urban empires of antiquity, even here in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography. — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.” — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
