Quotes about Anthropology

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. Votes: 4

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. Votes: 4

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. Votes: 4

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. Votes: 4

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. Votes: 3

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. Votes: 3

The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being. Votes: 3

I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen. Votes: 3

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities Votes: 3

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars Votes: 3

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet Votes: 3

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. Votes: 3

Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them. Votes: 3

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance Votes: 3

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world Votes: 3

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. Votes: 3

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. Votes: 3

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class. Votes: 3

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different. Votes: 3

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts. Votes: 3

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers. Votes: 3

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining. Votes: 3

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it. Votes: 3

Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. There is no field that you can study today that isn't trapped in the culture in some way. It's hard to escape your culture. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it Votes: 3

Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us. Votes: 3

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences Votes: 1

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. Votes: 1

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest. Votes: 1

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. Votes: 1

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years. Votes: 1

I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed. Votes: 1

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it. Votes: 1

I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places. Votes: 1

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school. Votes: 1

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does. Votes: 1

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology Votes: 0

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology. Votes: 0

Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography. Votes: 0

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash. Votes: 0

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls. Votes: 0

Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion. Votes: 0

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions. Votes: 0

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. Votes: 0

The last time I saw a brow that low I was watching slides in anthropology class Votes: 0

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. Votes: 0

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world. Votes: 0

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly. Votes: 0

I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy. Votes: 0

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. Votes: 0

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. Votes: 0

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology. Votes: 0

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist. Votes: 0

I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices. Votes: 0

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology. Votes: 0

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture. Votes: 0

I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead. Votes: 0

A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting. Votes: 0

Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0