Development Quote by Franz Boas

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

— Edward Sapir

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

“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

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

“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

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

— Clifford Geertz

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.

— Lily King

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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

This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as…

— George Herbert

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself…

— Andrew Lang