Anthropology Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

“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

“They’re people,’ he said. ‘Full marks for comparative anthropology.”

— Terry Pratchett

“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

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

— Alfred L. Kroeber

“After all, in the nineteenth century, racists relied on phrenology, or the “science” of determining personality traits based on the shape of the head,…

— Francione, Gary L

“The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a…

— Paul Goodman

“Several of the intellectual barriers erected many years ago to combat racism now stand in the way of studying the recent evolutionary past. These…

— Nicholas Wade

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able…

— Margaret Mead

“Increasingly anthropologists are being asked "what can you do for us?" by the people whose societies they are doing research on. It is sometimes…

— Anthony Seeger

“Anthropology at that time was in transition, moving from the study of men dead and gone to the study of living people, and slowly…

— Lily King

“Because of these divisions in the human population, anyone interested in recent human evolution is almost inevitably studying human races, whether they wish to…

— Nicholas Wade