Anthropology Quotes

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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked… — George Herbert
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task… — William Graham Sumner
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
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different. — Nancy Banks-Smith
In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots… — Ruth Behar
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is… — Renzo Piano
Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French… — George Akerlof
If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated from Africa. This… — Runoko Rashidi
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… — Arthur Kleinman
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means… — Aleister Crowley
More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate… — Ordway Tead
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God â€“ the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology. — Ludwig Feuerbach
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which… — Franz Boas
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. — Unknown Author
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir
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
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology — Clifford Geertz
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 it… — Clifford Geertz

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