Anthropology Quotes

Theology is anthropology.

— Anonymous

“not to be a trained anthropologist --”

— Anonymous

...to make the world safe for democracy.

— Woodrow Wilson

“All social interactions require some loss of freedom.”

— Erol Ozan

“Fate is What You are Born With; Free-Will is What You Do About It” - Drø the Finder –”

— H.D. Rennerfeldt

“It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

The last time I saw a brow that low I was watching slides in anthropology class

— Jennifer Crusie

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

— Bronislaw Malinowski

“All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.”

— robert owen

I love Anthropology for kitchenware - they make the best bowls, plates, cutlery etc.

— Ella Woodward

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

— Ruth Benedict

“Morphological anthropology applied to the physical study of children, is also a strong element in the growth of the new pedagogy.”

— Montessori Maria

“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000…

— Bill Gaede

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

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

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“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

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and…

— Clyde Kluckhohn

Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for…

— Lily King

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this…

— Donald Johanson

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into…

— Mary Doria Russell

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now.…

— Clifford Geertz

“Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"...…

— Liisa H. Malkki

I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to…

— Aleksandra Mir

“What is even more astonishing is that the entire science of wayfinding is based on dead reckoning. You only know where you…

— Wade Davis

“Anthropology does not have a very precise view of the acquisition and representation of religious representations becausethe question of subjective naturalness is…

— Anonymous

“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

“Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping…

— David Graeber

Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will…

— John Carroll

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

“Studying anthropology tends t change the way you look at the world. It leaves a distinctive chip in your brain, or lens…

— Gillian Tett

“It appears now to be universally admitted that, before the exile, the Israelites had no belief in rewards and punishments after death,…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“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

“One could imagine that a group of anthropologists and scientists sent off to study a previously uncontacted Amazon tribe today might be…

— Graham Hancock

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

— John Dominic Crossan

“It is the character of lived experience I want to explore, not the nature of man.”

— Michael D. Jackson

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

— Clifford Geertz

The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

— Ralph Linton

“There is no black history month, the entire human race calendar is black.”

— Abhijit Naskar