Appearance 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, mutually unintelligible languages,…

— 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

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 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

“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

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

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

“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

“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 at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people, and slowly…

— Lily King

We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and…

— Marshall Sahlins