“To a degree that we seldom realize, we depend upon the participation of others in our lives, and upon our own participation in the lives of others. Our success and effectiveness as persons is based upon this participation, and upon an ability to maintain a controlling competence in communicating with others.” LifeCultureRelationshipsFriendshipRelationshipCommunicationInterpersonal SkillsInterpersonal Relationships Book:The Invention of Culture Source: The Invention of Culture
“Anthropology studies the phenomenon of man, not simply man's mind, his body, evolution, origins, tools, art, or groups alone, but as parts or aspects of a general pattern, or whole. To emphasize this fact and make it a part of their ongoing effort, anthropologists have brought a general word into widespread use to stand for the phenomenon, and that word is culture.” CultureMankindBehaviorWholenessAnthropologySocial StudiesSocial ScienceAnthropologistStudies Of Culture Book:The Invention of Culture Source: The Invention of Culture
“Whereas painters of the early and middle 1400s enriched their own (and their countrymen's) understanding of the Gospel by recreating it in reality, their successors used this technique to study (and broaden) their entire world view. Hieronymus Bosch mastered a whole genre by merging the realism of Flemish painting with fantastic allegories of the human condition. His pictures of vermin and birds in men's clothing, atrocities, and weirdly juxtaposed objects use the realism of the earlier masters as a means of stark caricature. It was in this form, the most extreme possible, that character and moral differentiation were introduced into the realm of realistic depiction.” ArtPaintingHieronymus BoschFlemish School Book:The Invention of Culture Source: The Invention of Culture
“It is worthwhile studying other peoples, because every understanding of another culture is an experiment with our own.” CultureUnderstandingAnthropologyUnderstanding Oneself And OthersFieldworkAnthropologistStudies Of Culture Book:The Invention of Culture Source: The Invention of Culture