Anthropologists Quotes
33 quotes by 28 authors
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Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe…
— Lancelot Hogben
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I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of…
— Michael Dorris
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Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than…
— Robert J. Samuelson
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John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the connections human beings…
— Peter Orner
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The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every…
— James Q. Wilson
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In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of…
— Peter Sloterdijk
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The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any…
— Franz Boas
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Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can…
— Clifford Geertz
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Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should
— Clifford Geertz
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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial…
— Sherry Ortner
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What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.
— Jared Diamond
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Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
— Louis Leakey
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Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its…
— Carlos Barrios
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Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists…
— Richard Thornton
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Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.
— Rob Brezsny
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Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
— David Graeber
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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
— Robert Graves
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The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the…
— Edith Hamilton
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People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -…
— Neil Postman
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