Anthropology Quote by Clifford Geertz

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

— Anonymous

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on…

— Clifford Geertz

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

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…

— Clifford Geertz

“The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only…

— James Rachels

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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 provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages,…

— Clyde Kluckhohn

“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

“They’re people,’ he said. ‘Full marks for comparative anthropology.”

— Terry Pratchett

Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the…

— Noam Chomsky

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways…

— Clyde Kluckhohn