Anthropology famous quotes

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

#Humanity #Anthropology #Humanistic

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

#Newton #Anthropology

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

#Analysis #Anthropology #Incomplete

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

#Feminist #Female #Anthropology

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

#Together #States #Anthropology

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

#Historical #Realizing #Anthropology

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

#Normal #Psychological #Anthropology

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

#May #Currents #Anthropology

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

#Degrees #Apes #Anthropology

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

#Past #Fiction #Anthropology

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

#Evening #Anthropology

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

#Anthropology #Historian

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

#Understanding #Would Be #Anthropology

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
-- Cosima Spender

#Art #Tradition #Anthropology

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

#Soul #Anthropology #Theological