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“There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.” quote by Anonymous — Download Open image

“There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.”

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And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back

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Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

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You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.…

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Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

Everyone needs someone to love, and I choose you.

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“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care…

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Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,…

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Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past…

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Im sorry I ever tried...

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Being betrayed by the one you love is the worst feeling in the world...

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Let children support their parents or be imprisoned.

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The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much.

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“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of rampant ritualized group sex, mate-swapping, unrestrained casual affairs, and socially sanctioned sequential sex were all reported in cultures that anthropologists insist are monogamous simply because they've determined that something they call "marriage" takes place there. No…

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

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“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.”

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Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into an impressive whole that set out a compelling case for a type of ethnography of which Jackson is one of…

Arthur Kleinman

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

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Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear…

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.

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When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach seem natural, then your questions concern the context of discovery. When you ask whether the argument the philosopher puts forth to answer that question is sound, or whether the evidence justifies the scientific theory proposed, then…

Rebecca Goldstein

I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime,…

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

Michael Brian Schiffer

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“All social interactions require some loss of freedom.”

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Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

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