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.
Margaret Mead

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

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
Alfred L. Kroeber

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
Nancy Banks Smith

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over except when they are different.
Nancy Banks-Smith

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.
Clifford Geertz

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard

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

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

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
Clifford Geertz

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.
Octavia Butler

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden

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.
Franz Boas

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
Tim Robbins

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
Clifford Geertz

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

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

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.
Clifford Geertz

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.
Alan Dundes

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.
Clifford Geertz