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“Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.”

Subjects Intellectual Intense Fascinated Submit Urban Alienation Anthropology Exotic Anthropologists Repulsion

Author:Susan Sontag

“Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.”

Found Rivers Newton Anthropology

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.”

Ifs Men Humans Human Beings Quality Situation Flesh Recalls Provoking Complacency Monstrous Revolt Anthropology Meekness Blisters

Author:George Amos Dorsey

“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.”

Body Action Interest Study Environment Anthropology Dissection

Author:George Amos Dorsey

“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.”

“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.”

Men Wells Lost Behinds Creator Proof Anthropology Destroyers Vishnu

Author:George Amos Dorsey

“Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.”

Made Theology Supposed To Be Distinction Resolve Absurdity Anthropology Theological

Book:The essence of Christianity

Source: The essence of Christianity

“History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”

Answers History Study Sociology Anthropology

Author:W. H. Auden

“I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.”

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Author:George Lucas

“I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.”

Humor Funny Study Degrees Anthropology Calcium Milkman

Author:Steven Wright

“Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.”

Enough Form Research Tradition Various Reaching Anthropology Limbo Pining

Book:The Making Of Religion (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Making Of Religion (Annotated Edition)

“I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still.”

May Stills Differences Teaching Students Department Anthropology

Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

“In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.”

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Author:Aleksandra Mir

“I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there.”

World Ends Tradition Opposites Closest End Of The World Anthropology Exotic Fieldwork Faraway Places

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in multiple interview sessions. Oral history allows the person being interviewed to use their own language to talk about events in their life and the method is used by researchers in different fields like history, anthropology and sociology.”

People Way Persons Long Different Use Used Language Events Fields Research Method Interviews Life Experience Multiple Sociology Session Anthropology Researchers Conducting Oral History

Author:Patricia Leavy

“My first job was actually as a social worker. And then later, I got my PhD in anthropology. And I've always been interested in humans as well as primates. We are all kind of have the same emotions, the same goals and lives really. But to me, when I first got to Madagascar I realized that the lemurs lives are very closely related to what the humans are doing; partially because they've got both looking for natural resources. And if we can make some way that both humans and lemurs can live together peaceably and happily, that would be my goal for Madagascar.”

“I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has that taste of the faraway or undiscovered place. But my anthropology has more to do with what's in my reach.”

Thinking Feels Term Taste Anthropology Exotic Kinship Ethnography

Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being.”

Addresses Anthropology Magnificence

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.”

People Culture Courses Mankind Taught College Great Work Introduction Anthropology

Author:Laurie Colwin

“Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. We expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962)”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'”

Needs Persons Two Asks Social Century Claims Rational Racist Ideological Anthropology Nineteenth Century

Book:For Reasons Of State

Source: For Reasons Of State

“A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.”

Seems Social Interesting Psychology Boring Anthropology Free Throw

Author:Alex Blumberg

“I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.”

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Author:Lily King

“Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying.”

Way Said Reading Mass Grandmother Bothered Anthropology Mead

Author:Lily King

“In the end, we learn about the most basic philosophical questions - like "How to live?" - from a broad mixture of sources, including literature and philosophy, history and anthropology. These sources can guide our reflections on our own experiences, as we explore and reconsider. Mann contributed to such explorations in a distinctive way, and I hope my book brings that out.”

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Author:Philip Kitcher

“So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language, style, content, and often its author's gender. To publish it properly, in a way that makes it clear that this is art, not anthropology. To spotlight the importance of translation in making cultures less dully homogenous.”

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Author:Deborah Smith

“Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.”

Knows Wells Mean Masters Degrees University Divided Chicago Listeners Intimidating Anthropology

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.”

Humans Soul Anthropology Theological

Book:Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse

Source: Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse

“Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.”

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Author:George Packer

“I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.”

Art Tradition Anthropology Art History Captivated

Author:Cosima Spender

“We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about say Columbus or for that matter the 20th century. You are a consumer of that information, especially if it’s stuff like Columbus and the American Indians. That information isn’t even in history, much of it. Much of it is in anthropology or archeology.”

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Author:James W. Loewen

“When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them.”

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Author:Indira Gandhi

“Find out what schismogenesis means. Schismogenesis is anthropology. It says relationships between people are not stable. They are either moving up or moving down. The same is true for brands. You need to understand where you are.”

People Needs Mean Moving Brands Where You Are Stable Anthropology Moving Up

Author:Michael J. Silverstein

“When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach seem natural, then your questions concern the context of discovery. When you ask whether the argument the philosopher puts forth to answer that question is sound, or whether the evidence justifies the scientific theory proposed, then you've entered the context of justification. Considerations of history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology are relevant to the context of discovery, but not to justification.”

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an essentially linguistic phenomenon. Whether as a result of simply listening to everyday talk about meaning, or reading books of anthropology, sociology and art history, it dawned on me that there is nothing at all privileged or central about linguistic meaning.”

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Author:David E. Cooper

“I've got a solid grounding in history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, etc etc. That means I actually have a good idea about how societies change and evolve. I know how a lot of them have actually functioned through the years. I can put together a culture that's cool and different, while still being logically consistent, so that it feels real. So many fantasy worlds are either implausible, cookie-cutter, or both. Mine aren't.”

“If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people who live there, and their recent history, and their religion, and their motivation and everything, then you realize that changing Iraq into a democracy is not going to happen. It's just not going to happen.”

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Author:Mark Helprin

“I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum of the individuals. And I've found that much of the wisest writing on human social nature comes from sociology and anthropology, not from my own field of social psychology.”

Thinking Writing Individual Psychology Sociology Wisest Anthropology Social Psychology

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“That culture is a a critical resource the organization ignores. Competely mystifying. The organization continues to act as if culture were dark matter, something essentially inaccessible to us. When in fact there is an ancient discipline called anthropology that's pretty good at thinking about it.”

Thinking Culture Dark Discipline Ancient Anthropology

Author:Grant David McCracken

“Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.”

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Author:George Lucas

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of 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.”

Looks Has Beens Able Science Wonder Records Air Listening Demand Openness Anthropology Open Mindedness Astonishment

Author:Margaret Mead

“Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.”

Children Simple Teaching Males Educated Innocence Devices Anthropology Sisterhood

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

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

World Humans Different Science Purpose Humanity Differences Safe Safety Anthropology Anthropologists

Author:Ruth Benedict

“If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.”

Ifs Want Needs Wells Hard School Study Degrees Bones Chemistry Graduates Dna Anthropology Chemist Graduate School Anthropologists Forensics Microbiology

Author:Kathy Reichs

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

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Author:Tim Robbins

“Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.”

Analysis Incomplete Anthropology

Book:The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

Source: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

“I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?”

People Way Littles Doe Said Hands Used Religious Animal Class Study Fronts Affair Insight Conversion Dancer Over It Episodes Primitive Get Over Infant Love Affair Anthropology Psychotic

Author:Margaret Mead

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