"The text is merely one of the contexts……" — Leslie Fiedler

More Anthropological Quotes

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• Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement… — Niels Bohr
• The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously. — Albert Einstein
• Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses… — Franz Boas
• Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society,… — Arnold J. Mandell
• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously.… — Albert Einstein
• The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite… — Clifford Geertz
• A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another.… — John Zerzan
• The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects. — John Dee
• In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories… — Nikolai Berdyaev
• Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as… — Gary Saul Morson
• Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing… — Mindy Kaling

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