I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life. — Joanna Coles Copy Share Image
For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly. — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography. — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of… — Anonymous 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
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as… — Anonymous 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 pure products of America go crazy... ...[] No one to witness and adjust, no one to drive the car” — William Carlos Williams 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
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
“Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating… — James Ferguson Copy Share Image
Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in.… — Randy Newman 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
Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just… — Jonathan Raban 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
Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Faced with an ecological crisis whose roots lie in this disengagement, in the separation of human agency and social responsibility from the… — Tim Ingold Copy Share Image
“In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions… — American Anthropological Association Copy Share Image
“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with… — Philippe Descola Copy Share Image
“Before you came to live with us, our lives were as always, and we were happy. We worked, we ate, and then… — Robert Murphy Copy Share Image
I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or,… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars — Clifford Geertz 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
“A man had better study what a human being is, because he's marrying one - assuming that merely being one has not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
The application of anthropology to corporations and businesses helps to understand how staffs do things, as well as what they aren't doing,… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image