Anthropologists Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should — Clifford Geertz
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
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
What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. — Jared Diamond
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. — Louis Leakey
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
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
Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. — Rob Brezsny
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist. — David Graeber
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
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
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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