"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter,……" — Clifford Geertz

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• History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict
• This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all… — George Herbert
• If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we… — William Graham Sumner
• Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science… — Lancelot Hogben
• Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different. — Nancy Banks-Smith
• In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of… — Ruth Behar
• Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is… — Renzo Piano
• Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten… — George Akerlof
• If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people… — Runoko Rashidi
• Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at… — Arthur Kleinman
• Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery… — Aleister Crowley

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