(18 quotes found)
“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.”
Ruth Benedict
“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 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 provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?”
Clyde Kluckhohn
“Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.”
Michael Brian Schiffer
“Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject. . . . [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.”
Susan Sontag
“Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.”
Peter Gay
“Theology is Anthropology”
Anselm Feuerbach
“Anthropology holds up a great mirror to man and lets him look at himself in his infinite variety.”
