Quotes About Anthropology

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

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

The Internet is dumb. The Internet, with all its access to brain research, anthropology journals, social studies networks, and biographies and autobiographies, can't begin to map the complexity of our lives, or how we each affect others.

But, here is a second glitch. Insofar as is yet known, Cro-Magnon "appeared" intact and complete on the scene without any so far discoverable link to biological structures thought to be Mankind's evolutional predecessors.

Quanti secoli bisognarono a quella nebulosa per crescere da atomo a stella? Ve lo dicano gli astronomi. Quanti secoli ci vollero al sentimento umano per concertarsi in coscienza? Lo dicano gli antropologi.

I'm accustomed to thinking of literature as a search for knowledge; in order to move onto existential terrain I need to consider it in relation to anthropology, ethnology, and mythology.

I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

I think that Inuit duck is at the Peabody, Bringing Up Baby, "Ducky! Ducky!", the fact that Maika's dad worked on New Guinea, in the Anthropology department, the fact that I'd never seen anything like some of that stuff he had, masks and, and penis tubes.

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them.

The other Andamanese languages have no known relatives. They have five numbers: one, two, one more, some more, and all. On

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Some Rousseauean anthropologists protest that reports of cannibalism represent a racist desire to denigrate other cultures, but the scientific evidence suggests otherwise.

Buying is an activity understood by economists. Shopping is a phenomenon of interest to anthropologists and sociologists.

Archaeological excavation of such sites has also revealed evidence of cannibalism.

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Sad business, being a Negro man, always underpaid, their eyes don't look like our eyes, bloodshot, brown, liquid in them about to quiver out. Read somewhere some anthropologist thinks Negroes instead of being more primitive are the latest thing to evolve, the newest man.

One measure of how deeply these myths express elemental human concerns is the extent to which they are both timeless and universal. Mythologists and anthropologists see the same themes, situations, and stories played out again and again, across the ages and around the globe. Perhaps

Anthropology demands 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.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

The notion that relativity physics supports the avoidance of value judgments in anthropology, for example, or a relativism with respect to morals, is absurd. Actually, relativity introduces a whole series of new "absolutes.

In fact the taboo against killing and eating one's relatives is the most fundamental precondition if people are to live together and cooperate on a daily basis.

THE PUZZLE of cannibalism concerns the socially sanctioned con­ sumption of human flesh when other foods are available.