"Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet……" — Richard Dawkins

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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
• I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it… — Michael Dorris
• Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that… — Robert J. Samuelson
• John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other… — Peter Orner
• The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. .… — James Q. Wilson
• In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world.… — Peter Sloterdijk
• The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has… — Franz Boas
• Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology… — Clifford Geertz
• Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should — Clifford Geertz
• The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
• The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the… — Sherry Ortner
• What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. — Jared Diamond

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