Anthropology Quote by David Eller

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 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

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able…

— Margaret Mead

“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.”

— Fred Whitehead

“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

“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see…

— Paul La Farge

“Freedoers are at disadvantage compared with freethinkers because people suffer more obviously from the consequences of deeds than from those of thoughts.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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 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

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like…

— 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