“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
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars — Clifford Geertz 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
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
“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
“We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will… — John Carroll 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
“It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there—his wit, his skeptical mien,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In anthropology, things were mostly Stone Age: Yanomamo, Mbuti, !Kung - Susan once had it in her mind to learn how it… — III Sullivan Mark J Copy Share Image
Find out what schismogenesis means. Schismogenesis is anthropology. It says relationships between people are not stable. They are either moving up or… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
That culture is a a critical resource the organization ignores. Competely mystifying. The organization continues to act as if culture were dark… — Grant David McCracken Copy Share Image
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs,… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Of all the modern social sciences, anthropology is the one historically most closely tied to colonialism, since it was often the case… — Edward Said 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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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