Anthropology Quote by Clifford Geertz

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

— John Dominic Crossan

“Studying anthropology tends t change the way you look at the world. It leaves a distinctive chip in your brain, or lens over your…

— Gillian Tett

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

— Clifford Geertz

Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been…

— Franz Boas

“Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But these are natural limitations inherent to the…

— Orson Scott Card

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

— Michael Brian Schiffer

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

— Lily King

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the…

— Anonymous

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

— Edward Sapir

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

— Anonymous

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been…

— Clifford Geertz

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

— Ruth Benedict