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Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways…

— Clyde Kluckhohn

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages,…

— Clyde Kluckhohn

“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

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

— Alfred L. Kroeber

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see…

— Clifford Geertz

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

— Edward Sapir

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They…

— Kurt Vonnegut

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

— Clifford Geertz

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

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

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you…

— Clifford Geertz

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

— John Dominic Crossan