Quotes and Sayings About Anthropology
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Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
-- Alfred L. Kroeber -
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
-- Clifford Geertz -
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
-- Clifford Geertz -
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
-- David Graeber -
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
-- Edward Sapir -
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 -
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time
-- Franz Boas -
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.
-- Gregory Keyes -
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
-- Joan D. Vinge -
For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.
-- Nick Rhodes -
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
-- Peter Gay -
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 -
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
-- Cosima Spender
