Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions. — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls. — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“They’re people,’ he said. ‘Full marks for comparative anthropology.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.” — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. — Gregory Keyes Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
“You are not Flesh & Blood – You are the Master of It” - Drø the Finder –” — H.D. Rennerfeldt 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
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
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of… — Henry Fairfield Osborn 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
Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them. — Kent V. Flannery Copy Share Image
“Instead of looking for explanations for the fact of inequality, anthropologists should look for the explanation for the notion of equality.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir 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
“The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It… — James Rachels Copy Share Image
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic… — Ari Marcopoulos Copy Share Image
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
Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to… — Anonymous 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
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
“Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level… — Arthur Kleinman 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
“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
The real controversy comes with anthropologists - not all, but some - who see themselves as studying culture, and they then see… — Hal Whitehead 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
“Visitors say, 'Real shrunken heads! Wow! How were they made? By slitting the skin, taking out the skull and brains and steaming… — Frances Larson 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
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
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