Anthropology Quote by 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

“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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Edward Sapir

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

— John Dominic Crossan

Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the…

— Jonathan Raban

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

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped…

— Sam Richards

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.

— Kamaru Usman

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

— Lily King

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