I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
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Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.
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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
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Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.
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The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
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Theology is anthropology.
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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
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I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
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Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
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If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over except when they are different.
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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
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Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
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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.
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Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
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Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.
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We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
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Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.
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