Anthropology quotes

◆ Wanting to be with you is like reaching for the star, I know I wont be able to grab you right on top of my palm but I could always see you shining from afar...giving me light from my darkest hour...

- Joanne Lobedica100

◆ Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.

- George A Dorsey99

◆ The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

- George A Dorsey99

◆ The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish charicature of a human being are gone. This picture is false, and like many other falsehoods, it has been killed by Science.

- Bronislaw Malinowski99

◆ Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.

- George A Dorsey99

◆ Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

- Herbert George99

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

- Jane Howard99

◆ Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

- Michael Brian Schiffer99

◆ Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

- Alfred L Kroeber99

◆ The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isnt a story of conquest and rule. Enacting it doesnt give them power. Enacting it gives them lives that are satisfying and meaningful to them. This is what youll find if you go among them. Theyre not seething with discontent and rebellion, not incessantly wrangling over what should be allowed and what forbidden, not forever accusing each other of not living the right way, not living in terror of each other not going crazy because their lives seem empty and pointless, not having to stupefy themselves with drugs to get through the days, not having a new religion every week to give them something to hold on to, not forever searching for something to do or something to believe in that will make lives worth living. And I repeat this is not because they live close to nature or have no formal government or because theyre innately noble. This is simply because theyre enacting a story that works well for people a stor

- Daniel Quinn99

◆ 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 Mead99

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

- Ruth Benedict99