Anthropology Quote by Peter Gay Download Open image “Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.” — Peter Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anthropology Historian History
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. — Michael Brian Schiffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them. — Kent V. Flannery Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“Cotton Mather lusted all his life for the presidency of Harvard, a post his father had held, and which the son affected to despise,… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“The need to live by secure, sharply etched classifications is buried deep in the human mind and one of its earliest demands; simplicity allays… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use.… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future,… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.” — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly. — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. — Michael Brian Schiffer Copy Share Image
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
