Alfred L. Kroeber famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.
-- Alfred L. Kroeber

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We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

Alfred L. Kroeber famous quotes

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