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Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. Clifford Geertz#Anthropology 71
Clifford Geertz#Anthropology 71
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. Ruth Benedict#Anthropology 63
Ruth Benedict#Anthropology 63
Theology is anthropology. Anselm Feuerbach#Anthropology 59
Anselm Feuerbach#Anthropology 59
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 49
Nancy Banks Smith#Anthropology 49
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word. Peter Gay#Anthropology 43
Peter Gay#Anthropology 43
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. H. P. Blavatsky#Anthropology 29
H. P. Blavatsky#Anthropology 29
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together? Clyde Kluckhohn#Anthropology 29
Clyde Kluckhohn#Anthropology 29
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. Alfred L. Kroeber#Anthropology 26
Alfred L. Kroeber#Anthropology 26
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life. Joan D. Vinge#Anthropology 24
Joan D. Vinge#Anthropology 24
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. Clifford Geertz#Anthropology 20
Clifford Geertz#Anthropology 20
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