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Anthropology Quotes

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. Margaret Mead
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
Clifford Geertz quote: "Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to..."
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. Clifford Geertz
Jane Howard quote: "Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from..."
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. Jane Howard
Nancy Banks Smith quote: "Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the..."
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different. Nancy Banks Smith
Alfred L. Kroeber quote: "Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the..."
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. Alfred L. Kroeber
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. Clifford Geertz
The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropology and then forget the whole topic and go on to Culture. Paul Goodman
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. Clifford Geertz
The transpersonal experiences revealing the Earth as an intelligent, conscious entity are corroborated by scientific evidence. Gregory Bateson, who created a brilliant synthesis of cybernetics, information and systems theory, the theory of evolution, anthropology, and psychology came to the conclusion that it was logically inevitable to assume that mental processes occurred at all levels in any system or natural phenomenon of sufficient complexity. He believed that mental processes are... Stanislav Grof
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. 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. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one... Kurt Vonnegut
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. Arthur Conan Doyle
If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways,... Wallace Stegner
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
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest..."
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash. Kurt Vonnegut

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