Anthropologists Quotes - Page 3

• I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Greek, Leopards, Bulls

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Los nativos americanos no son ni deben ser atrezo en una especie de parque temático del pasado, donde vamos a pasarlo bien y a ver culturas exóticas. "Lo que hemos hecho a los pueblos que vivían en Norteamérica" es, según el antropólogo Sol Tax, "nuestro Pecado Original".

  James W. Loewen

  Native American, Past, Culture

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.117, The New Press

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• Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

  Lily King

  Writing, Would Be, Form

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Si lo explicas tan claramente que nadie puede malinterpretarlo, alguien lo hará. Si tienes razón el 90% de las veces, ¿por qué discutir el 3% restante? En África, algunas tribus nativas tienen la costumbre de golpear el suelo con porras y lanzar gritos que hielan la espina dorsal. Los antropólogos lo llaman una forma de autoexpresión primitiva. En Estados Unidos lo llamamos golf.

  Dave Barry

  Golf, Self, Expression

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• You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.

  Robert Caro

  Libro, Ignorancia, Ojo

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• You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers...damn anthropologists.

  Emo Philips

  Girl, Careers, Damn

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• ¿Y si el libro (del Génesis) describe una toma de conciencia del mundo? El antropólogo Edmund Leach ha afirmado que el "bit" o dígito binario es la unidad básica de la comunicación prelógica. El Génesis es un brote de "bits", es decir, distinciones binarias elementales.

  Charles Hampden-Turner

  Communication, Book, What If

  Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• Cuando tengo un taller de escritura, me gusta tener a gente que es antropóloga y a gente que está hurgando en otros campos, me gusta tenerlos a todos en el mismo taller, y no preocuparme por el género. Me gusta mezclar, porque el tipo de comentarios que puedes recibir de un escritor de ficción sobre tu poesía van a ser muy diferentes de los que recibirás de un poeta. O los comentarios que recibirás de un cineasta sobre tu actuación serán muy diferentes. En mi taller de escritura se trata de mezclar, de polinizar, no sólo los géneros, sino también las profesiones.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Worry, People

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• El proceso de selección ha sido lo suficientemente poderoso como para producir un resultado indiscutible: la familia es una institución humana universal. . . . Prácticamente en todas las sociedades en las que los historiadores o los antropólogos han indagado, se encuentran personas que viven juntas sobre la base de lazos de parentesco y que tienen la responsabilidad de criar a los hijos. . . . Incluso en las sociedades en las que los hombres y las mujeres tienen un acceso sexual relativamente libre a partir de una edad temprana, el matrimonio sigue siendo la base de la formación de la familia. Los cónyuges lo desean y la sociedad lo espera.

  James Q. Wilson

  Family, Powerful, Children

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• Pienso en empresas como Nokia que tienen antropólogos que estudian cómo usa la gente los teléfonos móviles, que hacen ese tipo de trabajo comercial y de marketing, vendiendo a las corporaciones. Me pregunto si eso tiene algo que ver con la imagen del antropólogo más inocente, ahora desaparecido.

  Lily King

  Pensar, Teléfonos, Celulares

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

  Lily King

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wouldn't say the anthropologists were making art, but they were definitely justifying their practices with very personal reasoning, passion, and they were also experimenting with form. There was a sense of trying to be as sincere as possible, whether you were investigating something far away from you or very close.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, Passion, Practice

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Philosophy, Passion, Play

  Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons

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• Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Fall, Mean, Science

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• Milla Jovovich me presentó a Carlos Castaneda [antropólogo y autor de la serie Don Juan de libros sobre rituales chamánicos con peyote] porque durante un minuto me aficioné a los alucinógenos.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Book, Peyote, Juan

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have anthropologists who dig up the art from the past. You can see the refinement in the society by the art. And people will see our lack of refinement when they dig up our art.

  Pat Steir

  Art, Past, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• El problema más difícil en el conocimiento personal, ya sea de uno mismo o de los demás, es el de adivinar cuándo pensar como historiador y cuándo como antropólogo.

  W. H. Auden

  Thinking, Personal Knowledge, Guessing

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• Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Niños, Pensamiento, Ideas

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hypocrite, Feet, Flying

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cuando me dieron el trabajo, no me dijeron nada sobre mi personaje. Es una antropóloga y es dura, es una Indiana Jones femenina. Eso es lo que entré en [Lost] sabiendo.

  Rebecca Mader

  Jobs, Character, Knowing

  "Show Tracker". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, articles.latimes.com. February 12, 2009.

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• The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Country, People, Firsts

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• I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers.

  Susan Meiselas

  Perspective, Tourists, Encounters

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• Porque la única manera de hablar de la nada es hablar de ella como si fuera algo, igual que la única manera de hablar de Dios es hablar de él como si fuera un hombre, que sin duda lo fue, en cierto sentido, durante un tiempo, y como la única manera de hablar del hombre, incluso nuestros antropólogos se han dado cuenta de ello, es hablar de él como si fuera una termita.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Men, Way

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Watt”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance artist and an anthropologist and a human rights lawyer. Usually at most gatherings, it's all writers. But suddenly I was at a table with all these different people and I learned from each of them, learned from the work they're doing, learned new ways to solve my problems.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Artist, Rights, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, People, Worry

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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