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

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

— John Dominic Crossan

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

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

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

— Edward Sapir

Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay in the…

— Mary Doria Russell

“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

“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

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

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

— Clifford Geertz

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

— Lily King

I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has…

— Ari Marcopoulos