"Anthropology is the science which tells us that……" — Nancy Banks-Smith
"Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different."
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8 Quotes by Nancy Banks-Smith
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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
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This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with…
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You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
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Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so…
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Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
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The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.
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'She murdered sleep' - on the death of Agatha Christie in 1976 (please verify)
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More Anthropology Quotes
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
— Ruth Benedict
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This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all…
— George Herbert
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If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we…
— William Graham Sumner
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Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science…
— Lancelot Hogben
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In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of…
— Ruth Behar
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is…
— Renzo Piano
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Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten…
— George Akerlof
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If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people…
— Runoko Rashidi
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Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at…
— Arthur Kleinman
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery…
— Aleister Crowley
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More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and…
— Ordway Tead
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