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“Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.”

Knows Wells States Together Anarchism Anthropology Anthropologists

Author:David Graeber

“The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects.”

Humans Animal Messages Aspect All Things Connections Plant Connected Anthropology Connectedness

Author:John Dee

“There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.”

Philosophy Decision Path Existentialism Existential Joining Anthropology

Book:The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations

Source: The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations

“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.”

Has Beens Influence Regions Spheres Hunting Anthropology Adventurer Sphere Of Influence

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

“The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.”

Would Be Lasts Water Perception Fishes Surroundings Anthropology Noticing Linton

Author:Ralph Linton

“The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.”

Humans Persons Matter Problem Today Certain Causes Common Danger Serious Ethics Economics Profound Ecology Superficial Urgency Anthropology Common Good

Author:Pope Francis

“The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”

Want Humans Change Freedom Cities Rights Transformation Human Rights Arguing Neglected Anthropology Remakes Urbanization

Book:Social Justice and the City

Source: Social Justice and the City

“Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.”

Ifs Important Belief Sports Attitude Cases Commitment Positive Attitude Anthropology

Author:Donald Johanson

“General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many parts of the world and is clearly destined to continue developing well into the twenty-first century. Translation studies brings together work in a wide variety of fields, including linguistics, literary study, history, anthropology, psychology, and economics. This series of books will reflect the breadth of work in translation studies and will enable readers to share in the exciting new developments that are taking place at the present time.”

“The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology is not the church's teaching or the experience of pious souls. It is not a subset of ethics, religious studies, cultural anthropology, or psychology. God is the object of this discipline.”

Soul Names Church Religious Study Psychology Teaching Objects Discipline Ethics Theology Evident Anthropology Pious Religious Studies

Author:Michael Horton

“The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.”

Research Criticism Anthropology Persuasive Literary Criticism

Author:Clifford Geertz

“I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.”

Knows Men Done Problem Science Humanity Natural Simple Deals Pure Scientist Rewards Contact Branches Department Immense Inquiry Anthropology Natural Science

Author:Thomas Huxley

“If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions ... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot ... Everybody has talent. It's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.”

Ifs Art Matter Feelings School Film Moving Passion Gone Talent Hot Anthropology Art School Inner Feelings

Author:George Lucas

“Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large.”

People Able Action Situation Fantasy Society Discipline Theater Ritual Concrete Sociology Symbolic Anthropology

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.”

Science Study Bounds Worthy I Realized Devotion Golden Biographies Elders Great Work Anthropology Great Science

Author:Bronislaw Malinowski

“The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.”

Way Has Beens School Science My Own Titles Magnificent Biographies Anthropology Irresponsibility

Book:Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski

Source: Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski

“[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.”

Science Rivers Biographies Anthropology Riders Haggard

Book:Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski

Source: Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski

“In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.”

Ifs Culture One Thing Understood West Clubs Despise Anthropology

Author:Charles Portis

“The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.”

Men Facts Law Mother Family Atheism Men And Women Positive Atheism Familiar Awe Dread Contemplating Savages In-laws Anthropology Mother In Law Family Man

Author:James G. Frazer

“The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.”

Men Born Deals Common Secret Millions Teaching Theory Property Climate Various Refuse Doctrine Anthropology Geology Esoteric

Book:The Secret Doctrine

Source: The Secret Doctrine

“Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.”

Kids Interest Physics Enormous Quantum Anthropology Quantum Physics

Author:Micky Dolenz

“Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.”

Historian Anthropology

Author:Peter Gay

“When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.”

Years Firsts Made Choices Found Wonderful Particular Late Pursuit Biology Academic Eastern Fossils Anthropology Wonderful Marriage

Author:Donald Johanson

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