Anthropology Quotes

The ethnographer's task is, in so far as it is possible, to make sense of the lives of others, to understand what they are up to.

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

The superorganic is not a mystical entity, but a convenient term for a certain order of phenomena, namely, those which are cultural.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.

The feeling for form, for the symmetrical, for the typical, for the rhythmic, for the beautiful, is not a luxury of the human spirit, but a necessity.

The object of anthropology is to understand the human mind.

The final goal of ethnographic field-work is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.