“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 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
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 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
“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
“Morphological anthropology applied to the physical study of children, is also a strong element in the growth of the new pedagogy.” — Montessori Maria Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University. — Bozoma Saint John 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
“What I liked in anthropology was its inexhaustible faculty of negation, its relentless definition of man, as though he were no better… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made… — Margaret Mead 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
“But because humans are intensely social animals, they also faced a recurring set of crucial social evolutionary challenges. These evolutionary challenges include… — Vladas Griskevicius Copy Share Image
Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that's what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But these are natural limitations inherent… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I've got a solid grounding in history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, etc etc. That means I actually have a good idea about how… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Something is indeed returning today - but the conventional wisdom that this is religion making its reappearance is insufficient to satisfy critical… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other… — Pascal Boyer Copy Share Image
If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated… — Runoko Rashidi Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Rasa has two primary meanings: 'feeling' and 'meaning'. As 'feeling' it is one of the traditional Javanese five senses - seeing, hearing,… — Geertz Clifford 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
“One could imagine that a group of anthropologists and scientists sent off to study a previously uncontacted Amazon tribe today might be… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does… — Ray Birdwhistell Copy Share Image
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.” — Joan Didion 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
“An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Sometimes zer are feelings that can't be put into word, how long the phrase may be, it won't be able to hold… — Yudish Copy Share Image
The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects. — John Dee Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'. — Jon Taffer 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
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
Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
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
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
“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
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