Anthropology Quote by 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

“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 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

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

Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too…

— David Pilbeam

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin…

— Franz Boas

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

— Anonymous

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 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

“Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with regard to…

— Ernst Cassirer

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we…

— Arthur Keith