"It would be as unthinkable to try to……" — Tony Benn
"It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously"
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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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