Anthropology Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Anonymous

“They’re people,’ he said. ‘Full marks for comparative anthropology.”

— Terry Pratchett

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

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

— 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

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

“Both freethought and anthropology are symptoms of the same underlying condition - the relative condition, the condition of difference.”

— David Eller

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

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

— Peter Gay

When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

— Jon Taffer

“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