#anthropology

It is the character of lived experience I want to explore, not the nature of man. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#experience #true-nature #experience

Explorations of the world are simultaneously explorations of the human body and being, charting the range of sensory experiences possible in the world and the values that can be attached to such experiences ↗

— Chris Gosden

#prehistory #experience

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

#assign #born #climates #common #countless

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

#currents #darwin #due #helped #hope

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#asking #different #everybody #gets #how

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#feminism #had #i #i think #impact

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

— Edward Sapir

#cultural #getting #historical #itself #more

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

#able #anthropology #astonishment #been #demands

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#africa #anthropology #around #began #biology

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

— Tim Robbins

#acting #acting class #anthropology #class #courses