Anthropology Quotes

Anthropology Quote of the day

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

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

We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.

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

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

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 it is

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.

Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

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

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

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 if they fit, it is surely in anthropology

I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

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

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being.

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

The last time I saw a brow that low I was watching slides in anthropology class