Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it… — Marilyn Strathern Copy Share Image
At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. — Gregory Keyes Copy Share Image
See how exciting Anthropology is? He’s a leading expert in ancient Greece. Now you should all change your majors so that you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Both freethought and anthropology are symptoms of the same underlying condition - the relative condition, the condition of difference.” — David Eller Copy Share Image
“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you… — Paul La Farge Copy Share Image
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“Relatedness - whether imagined or lived out face-to-face - is a social fact, and it is not limited to "kinship" as mapped… — Naomi Leite Copy Share Image
“I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made… — Spiros Doikas Copy Share Image
“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“A bare two years after Vasco da Gama’s voyage a Portuguese fleet led by Pedro Alvarez Cabral arrived on the Malabar coast.… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion.… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
“I had made an early policy decision to drink the native beer despite the undoubted horrors of the process of fabrication. On… — Nigel Barley Copy Share Image
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“I began to realize something fundamental about field-work: that it is useless to concentrate exclusively on one's 'research project.' One has to… — Benedict Anderson Copy Share Image
Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THE attention of the writer having been called to the fact that all Indo-Germanic nations have worshipped crucified Saviours, an investigation of… — Sarah E. Titcomb Copy Share Image
“It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is… — Pierre Clastres Copy Share Image
“Studying anthropology tends t change the way you look at the world. It leaves a distinctive chip in your brain, or lens… — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image
