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> [“What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of the particular group we are considering, and unlike what we would find in members of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pascal-boyer/what-we-mean-when-we-say-that-something-is-cultural-is-that-it-is/)

[Pascal Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pascal-boyer/)

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> [ “\[T\]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pascal-boyer/t-he-choice-of-human-groupings-for-cultural-comparisons-is-not-a/)

[Pascal Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pascal-boyer/)

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## Other authors on Anthropology

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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-margaret-mead-63436.jpg) Margaret Mead 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anthropology/margaret-mead/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kurt-vonnegut-58049.jpg) Kurt Vonnegut 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anthropology/kurt-vonnegut/)

## More by Pascal Boyer

> [The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pascal-boyer/the-fundamentalist-violence-is-so-is-it-an-attempt-to-increase-the/)

[Pascal Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pascal-boyer/)

> [“What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pascal-boyer/what-we-mean-when-we-say-that-something-is-cultural-is-that-it-is/)

[Pascal Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pascal-boyer/)

> [ \[R\]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pascal-boyer/r-eligious-concepts-are-parasitic-upon-moral-intuitions/)

[Pascal Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pascal-boyer/)

> [A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pascal-boyer/a-slew-of-cognitive-traits-predisposes-us-to-faith/)

[Pascal Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pascal-boyer/)

> [ “\[T\]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pascal-boyer/t-he-choice-of-human-groupings-for-cultural-comparisons-is-not-a/)

[Pascal Boyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pascal-boyer/)

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