Definition of Anthropology

Anthropology

The science of the structure and functions of the human body.

The science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.

That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.

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Anthropology Quotations

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

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
Tim Robbins

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

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
H. P. Blavatsky

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Ruth Benedict

Theology is anthropology.
Anselm Feuerbach

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

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

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

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
Clifford Geertz

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

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
Clifford Geertz

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
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

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

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
Clifford Geertz

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
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

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

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
Paul Ricoeur

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
Joan D. Vinge

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
Donald Johanson

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

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

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

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard

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

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

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Anthropology Translations

anthropology in French is anthropologie
anthropology in German is Menschenkunde {f}, Anthropologie {f}
anthropology in Swedish is antropologi

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