Anthropology Quote by Ruth Benedict Download Open image “The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.” — Ruth Benedict ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anthropology Differences Purpose Safe World
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways… — Clyde Kluckhohn Copy Share Image
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages,… — Clyde Kluckhohn 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
“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 Copy Share Image
I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world. — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal. — Edward Sapir 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 is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
“Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But these are natural limitations inherent to the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use. — Ruth Benedict 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
