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
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
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
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
“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
“Anthropology does not have a very precise view of the acquisition and representation of religious representations becausethe question of subjective naturalness is… — Anonymous 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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 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
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
“Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"...… — Liisa H. Malkki Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now.… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“What is even more astonishing is that the entire science of wayfinding is based on dead reckoning. You only know where you… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
“It is characteristic of the ethnocentrism of anthropology that whereas the rationality of claims by African and other primitive diviners to be… — Wyatt MacGaffey Copy Share Image
“The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“In America, Amazon competes with yahoo and Google by competing with a gas station. Imagine if every price in QT was the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
“I remember taking an anthropology class in college and the professor was explaining that there is little 'sexual dimorphism' in humans. He… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
