Anthropology Quotes

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

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

Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

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

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time

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.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

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

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

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

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

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

For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.

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

My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.

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