Anthropology Quotes
47 quotes from Anthropology thinkers
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.
Clifford Geertz
Anthropology
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Ruth Benedict
Anthropology
The superorganic is not a mystical entity, but a convenient term for a certain order of phenomena, namely, those which are cultural.
Alfred L. Kroeber
Anthropology
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Anthropology
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.
Edward Sapir
Anthropology
The object of anthropology is to understand the human mind.
Franz Boas
Anthropology
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.
Bronisław Malinowski
Anthropology