Books Quote by Lily King

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like…

— Lily King

The image is not a closed field of knowledge; it is a whirling, centrifugal field. It is not a field of knowledge like any…

— Georges Didi-Huberman

The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because…

— Maria Montessori

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

— Rudolf Bultmann

Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative…

— Franz Boas

“Anthropological theory assumes that exposure in a treeless situation where all escape upwards was cut off led to the invention of myths. Kafka's ape,…

— W.G. Sebald

We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into it. They…

— Ciro Guerra

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Members of many lowland Indian societies play flutes or sing for that number of hours for long periods. Yet we know much more about…

— Anthony Seeger

Acting is very anthropological for me. It makes me less judgmental.

— Parvathy

“Something is indeed returning today - but the conventional wisdom that this is religion making its reappearance is insufficient to satisfy critical inquiries. Nor…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career,…

— Margaret Mead