Quotes on Anthropology

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

Author: Alan Dundes

Theology is anthropology.

Author: Anselm Feuerbach

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

Author: Peter Gay

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

Author: Clifford Geertz

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

Author: Clifford Geertz

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

Author: Clifford Geertz

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.

Author: Clifford Geertz

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Author: Clifford Geertz

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

Author: Clifford Geertz

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

Author: Clifford Geertz

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

Author: Clifford Geertz

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

Author: Alfred Kroeber

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.

Author: Margaret Mead

Culture is the intersection of people and purpose, creating a unique tapestry of human expression.

Author: Sofia Alvarez