Anthropology Quotes

Quotes from, about and around the world of Anthropology

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#Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over,except when they are different - Nancy Banks Smith

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The movement of life is specifically of becoming rather than being, of renewal along a path rather than displacement in space - Tim Ingold

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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences - Ruth Benedict #Anthropology

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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women - Margaret Mead

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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned - Antonio Gramsci

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..the notion of borderlands is a more adequate conceptualization of the "normal" locale of the postmodern subject - Gupta & Ferguson

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For me, anthropology is in fact the theory […] of a permanent decolonization. A permanent decolonization of thought - Viveiros de Castro

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The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects which is itself but an endless circle of mutually reflecting metaphors - Pierre Bourdieu

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Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist - Ernest Gellner #Anthropology

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We should not thus think of the properties of materials as attributes. Rather, they are histories - Tim Ingold #Anthropology

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Human evolution is not a by-product of biological evolution, but neither is it completely distinct from it - Lévi-Strauss #Anthropology

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If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home ― Clifford Geertz #Anthropology

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I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it - Geertz

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The…real calamity, the one fatal flaw which can afflict a human group and prevent it from achieving fulfilment is to be alone - Lévi-Strauss

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The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake - Franz Boas

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

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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts - Edmund Leach #anthropolgy

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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else - Margared Mead #Anthropology

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Cultural anthropology … is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal - Edward Sapir #Anthropology

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We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong - Gregory Bateson