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“How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.”

Thinking Ideas Hope Modern Mathematics Patterns Math Conclusion Mathematical Arriving Organizational Generalization Anthropologists

Author:Edmund Leach

“Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.”

Made Language Forget Fields Poet Scientist Links Primitive Connecting Anthropologists

Book:Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.”

Humans Science Technology Cutting Ready Flower Busy Seeds Forests Savages Transport Anthropologists

Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way

Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way

“As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the different races of mankind. Indeed, I would be inclined to suggest that however great may be the physical differences between such races as the European and the Negro, the mental and psychological differences are greater still.”

May Stills Different Facts Would Be Social Differences Race Accepting Greater Mankind Majors Stress Psychological Anthropologists Different Races

Author:Louis Leakey