Anthropology Quote by Charles Portis

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…

— Ruth Behar

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

— Cesar Chavez

“The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it. I have always viewed it from a…

— George Carlin

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to…

— Rigoberta Menchu

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

— Ibn Warraq

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western…

— Steven Pinker

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

— Amos Oz

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

— Armstrong Williams

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

— John Dominic Crossan

There are certain practices that may be historically acceptable to some people but that have no place in our culture.

— Damian Green

If someone says that they have to 'tolerate' cultural differences and cultural groupings different from themselves then that may make it difficult, at the…

— Alison Assiter

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false;…

— Samuel P. Huntington