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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… — Unknown Author
Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. Â There is no field that you can study… — Jacque Fresco
Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography. — Brian Solis
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing… — Unknown Author
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research… — Octavia Butler
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and… — Clyde Kluckhohn
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient… — Neil Postman
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are,… — Alan Dundes
This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and… — Joseph Auslander
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge
We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure… — Marshall Sahlins
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist. — David Graeber
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. — Paul Ricoeur
Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most… — H.G. Wells
The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it… — Pope Francis
Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my… — Donald Johanson
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many… — Lawrence Venuti
The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology is not the… — Michael Horton
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. — Clifford Geertz
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense… — Thomas Huxley
If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed… — George Lucas
Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic… — Jonathan Raban
Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a… — Randy Newman
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of… — Joan D. Vinge
No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it.… — Bronislaw Malinowski

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