Anthropology Quotes

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

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

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

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
Alfred L. Kroeber

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

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

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

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

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

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
Randy Newman

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

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.

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

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
Randy Newman

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.
Joan D. Vinge

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.
Michael Brian Schiffer

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.

In some ways being a parent is like being an anthropologist who is studying a primitive and isolated tribe by living with them.
Lawrence Kutner

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.

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







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