Anthropology Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.