Anthropology Quote by Andrew Lang

Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been…

— Franz Boas

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the…

— Anonymous

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

— Edward Sapir

We can study material processes and various processes at the energetic level, that is what we can do as natural scientists. And then there…

— Albert Hofmann

“Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But these are natural limitations inherent to the…

— Orson Scott Card

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by…

— Franz Boas

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag

“Studying anthropology tends t change the way you look at the world. It leaves a distinctive chip in your brain, or lens over your…

— Gillian Tett

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what…

— Clifford Geertz

“Anthropology at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people, and slowly…

— Lily King

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able…

— Margaret Mead