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 in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
Clifford Geertz
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
Alfred L. Kroeber
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
Nancy Banks Smith
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
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
Edward Sapir
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
Peter Gay
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
Clifford Geertz
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.
Octavia Butler
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden
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
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
Tim Robbins
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
Clifford Geertz
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
Clifford Geertz
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
If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.
Clifford Geertz
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
Alan Dundes
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.
Clifford Geertz
Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
Randy Newman
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