Anthropology Quote by Michael Brian Schiffer

Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.

— Kent V. Flannery

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

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

— Alfred L. Kroeber

“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

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by…

— Franz Boas

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

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

— Peter Gay

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

— Anonymous

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the…

— Anonymous

“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

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