196 Quotes About Anthropology

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

Theological anthropology is a lot simpler when humans are the only ones with souls.

It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is found in our culture. It is instead the sign of a certain conceptual poverty.

After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly poetry, that involved almost no math at all.

Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.

La interculturidad es imprescindible, es democrática, en el sentido de que es el reconocimiento del otro, el deleitarnos en reconocer al otro, el ver al otro como un activo, no como un pasivo

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there—his wit, his skeptical mien, his abrupt gesticulations when he talked, his quiet and sentimental moments.