"Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever……" — Peter Gay
"Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word."
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10 Quotes by Peter Gay
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There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might…
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Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism,…
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My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
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To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree…
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People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.
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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
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And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by…
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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
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I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with…
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More Anthropology Quotes
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one of 97 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
— Nancy Banks-Smith
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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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