Anthropology Quote by Lily King

“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

“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

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded…

— Margaret Mead

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

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

— Edward Sapir

“The story of our human lineage is continually enlarged, almost daily, by discoveries from physical anthropology, archeology, and genetics.”

— Richard J. Borden

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin…

— Franz Boas

“Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." - Alfred L. Kroeber”

— Alfred L. Kroeber

“The picture of change in human society that emerges from this recent research throws new light on that aspect of the Transition that has…

— James David Lewis-Williams

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

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

“It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an…

— Émile Durkheim