Anthropology Quote by Peter Gay

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

— Edward Sapir

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

— Michael Brian Schiffer

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

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

— Kent V. Flannery

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

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

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

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

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

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Alfred L. Kroeber

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

— Emile Durkheim