196 Quotes About Anthropology

I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments and mocking this religious stuff. Frankly, it stayed with me to this day. In fact, don't get me going. I'm almost as bad as Richard Dawkins on this issue.

Es característico de la mala crítica imponer a las teorías que se revisan el cumplimiento de promesas que ellas no han hecho, en lugar de revisar la consistencia interna de su discurso

Today there remain but a few small areas on the world’s map unmarked by explorers’ trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the secrets of the tropical jungles have been revealed. The highest mountains of the earth have heard the voice of man. But this does not mean that the youth of the future has no new worlds to vanquish. It means only that the explorer must change his methods.

People don't like to think of themselves as sinful. They don't want to believe that they are selfish, evil people who would act much worse if unrestrained by society... Because they believe they act from pure motives, many people live by their own moral code and can always justify their behavior. When that strategy fails they can always think of someone worse than themselves.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

What's it mean; are you determinedTo make modern all mankind?If so, you should be be-sermonedAnd brought back to healthy mind.

The assertion that "culture" explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parents cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age, and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other.

Both freethought and anthropology are symptoms of the same underlying condition - the relative condition, the condition of difference.

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.