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Anthropology Quotes

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

Authors on Anthropology Quotes: Edward Sapir Clifford Geertz Franz Boas Wilhelm Dilthey James S.A. Corey Samael Aun Weor David Graeber Joan D. Vinge Kathy Reichs Ludwig Feuerbach Nick Rhodes Cosima Spender Gregory Keyes Alfred L. Kroeber Peter Gay
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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

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

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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

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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

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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.
Ludwig Feuerbach

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

8.
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
David Graeber

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

10.
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
Joan D. Vinge

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

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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.
Kathy Reichs

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

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

15.
The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being.
Samael Aun Weor

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

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