Life Quote by James Rachels

“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

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

— Clifford Geertz

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see…

— 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

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture.…

— Laurie Colwin

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

— Edward Sapir

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

— Anonymous

As an anthropologist, I believe strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much anguish and…

— Alice Roberts

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

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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 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