Anthropology Quote by Clyde Kluckhohn

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Ruth Benedict

“Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through understanding, people…

— Suzy Kassem

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 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

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see…

— Clifford Geertz

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

— Alfred L. Kroeber

Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability…

— Superman

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