Quotes about Anthropology

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Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. — Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Raw and the Cooked
In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and se — American Anthropological Association
I have researched aboriginal culture, Mayan hieroglyphics and the corporate culture of a Japanese car manufacturer, and — Deborah Levy, Hot Milk
Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy** some are dumb, too, but that’s an — Gregory Cochran
These people know the reality and laugh at it. Such laughter has little concern with what is funny. It is often bitter a — Elenore Smith Bowen, Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel
Makers?" said Toby. Jaysir nodded."We're not loners, you know. There just weren't any on Wallop. We love to get together — Karl Schroeder, Lockstep
The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record! — James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
The ultimate truth is mystical truth, the ultimate reality is sacred chaos. - Muzwot — Muzwot
The ultimate truth is mystical truth, the ultimate reality is sacred chaos. — Muzwot
Recent sociological findings indicate that while "whites have largely abandoned principled racism... they have not neces — John Hoberman, Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. — Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Raw and the Cooked
I was an American girl — I possessed what our culture valued most-independance and blind courage.
Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklori — J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien on Fairy-stories
It is often thought that the life of the hunter-gatherer was one of feast and famine. But most available data suggest th — Peter Gluckman, Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies
If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two — J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race tha — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Som — Robert Wright
It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive — Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the — Arthur Schopenhauer
When a disease insinuates itself so potently into the imagination of an era, it is often because it impinges on an anxie — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer