Quotes about Anthropology

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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love — Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness
In America, Amazon competes with yahoo and Google by competing with a gas station. Imagine if every price in QT was the — Anonymous
-Paint-My girlfriend is so besotted that she can't take her eyes off me. After we've turned out the light she puts on he — Dan Rhodes, Anthropology
What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model — Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still pro — Philippe Descola, The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, on — Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology — Ludwig Feuerbach, Principles of the Philosophy of the Future
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their — Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said: In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing — Stanley A. Freed, Anthropology Unmasked: Museums, Science, and Politics in New York City
What is even more astonishing is that the entire science of wayfinding is based on dead reckoning. You only know where y — Wade Davis, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Stopping in the 1970s, "Hybridity" as the fifth and final chapter is less of an end point than a certain realization of — Hannah Landecker, Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; — Colin E. Gunton
I had made an early policy decision to drink the native beer despite the undoubted horrors of the process of fabrication — Nigel Barley, The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut
There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human. — Howard Morphy, Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories
For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the — Ian Tattersall
Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical — James Ferguson
Somewhere beyond Tibet, among the icy peaks and secluded valleys of Central Asia, there lies an inaccessible paradise, a — Victoria Le Page
To gain an understanding of the mind leads on to an appreciation of what it means to be human. — Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science
Cooking gave us not just the meal but also the occasion: the practice of eating together at an appointed time and place. — Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation