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.
Margaret Mead
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
Clifford Geertz
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
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Ruth Benedict
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
Clifford Geertz
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
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
Clifford Geertz
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
H. P. Blavatsky
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
Donald Johanson
A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.
Clifford Geertz
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
Louis Leakey
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley