Best Anthropology Quotes
97 Anthropology quotes by 66 unique authors
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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
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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
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Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.
— Brian Solis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
— Joan D. Vinge
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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