Able Quote by 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

“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see…

— Paul La Farge

“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

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag

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 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

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

— David Eller

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

— Anonymous

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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'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

“The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only…

— James Rachels