"I hope I may have succeeded in presenting……" — Franz Boas
"I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time"
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22 Quotes by Franz Boas
Franz Boas has 22 quotes on this site.
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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be…
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not…
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The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races…
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of…
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Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses…
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There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race…
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It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language,…
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Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through…
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It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the…
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his…
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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma
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We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless,…
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More Anthropology Quotes
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
— Ruth Benedict
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This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all…
— George Herbert
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If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we…
— William Graham Sumner
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Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science…
— Lancelot Hogben
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
— Nancy Banks-Smith
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In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of…
— Ruth Behar
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is…
— Renzo Piano
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Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten…
— George Akerlof
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If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people…
— Runoko Rashidi
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Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at…
— Arthur Kleinman
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery…
— Aleister Crowley
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