Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central… — Margaret Mead 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen as a peculiarly perverse example of Calvinist… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made… — Spiros Doikas Copy Share Image
“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
My first job was actually as a social worker. And then later, I got my PhD in anthropology. And I've always been… — Patricia Wright 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually… — Clyde Kluckhohn 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
I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion.… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
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