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It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason. — Alexander McCall Smith

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

Like other people, anthropologists may see only what they want to see, even when what they want to see is nothing. — J. Budziszewski

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

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

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

The pure products of America
go crazy ...
... [] No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car — William Carlos Williams

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record! — James C. Scott

Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it. — S. Kelley Harrell

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

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

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology. — Clifford Geertz

There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage. — Kenan Malik

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution. — Samael Aun Weor

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home. — Clifford Geertz

The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being. — Samael Aun Weor

...tales in search of an excuse for their telling. — John Van Maanen

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

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

The universe is made of stories, not atoms. — Muriel Rukeyser

I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history. — Marie Brennan

Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made. — Begona Aretxaga

Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality. — Terence McKenna

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge

What's it mean; are you determined
To make modern all mankind?
If so, you should be be-sermoned
And brought back to healthy mind. — Charles C. Abbott

It was a big mistake for me to take a degree in anthropology anyway, because I can't stand primitive people - they're so stupid. — Kurt Vonnegut

Human beings disappear; their histories remain. — Bernard Stiegler

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

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

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

The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see it for what it was. — Paul La Farge

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

[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one. — Pascal Boyer

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. — Claude Levi-Strauss

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. — Clifford Geertz

To gain an understanding of the mind leads on to an appreciation of what it means to be human. — Steven Mithen

The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. — Ann Leckie

Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion. — Bryce Dallas Howard

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls. — James S.A. Corey

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

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

We have to do a better job at the work of anthropology if we hope to maintain our role in the public discourse. — Christopher W. Brooks

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

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

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

Early anthropology was not at all seen as art for art's sake; it was intended to facilitate the colonizer's work. — David Van Reybrouck

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

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

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

Anthropology, she thought, like charity, surely begins at home. — Alexander McCall Smith

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. — Samuel P. Huntington

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer

The story of our human lineage is continually enlarged, almost daily, by discoveries from physical anthropology, archeology, and genetics. — Richard J. Borden

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses. — Raymond Williams

All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. — Robert Owen

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss

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. — Clifford Geertz

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they're crazy*
* some are dumb, too, but that's another story. — Gregory Cochran

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

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human. — Howard Morphy

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. — George Lucas

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

It is the character of lived experience I want to explore, not the nature of man. — Michael James Jackson

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

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

I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos. — Joan Didion

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

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

Both freethought and anthropology are symptoms of the same underlying condition - the relative condition, the condition of difference. — Jack David Eller

Theology is anthropology. — Anselm Feuerbach

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

It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar. — China Mieville

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist. — Elizabeth Kostova

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. — Rob Brezsny