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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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"Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo."
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
"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."
"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
"It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today."
"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
"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."
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
"One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in tribal societies that had not been pacified by a colonial or national government, particularly if they had an exaggerated culture of manly honor."
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
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"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again."
"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."
"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive."
"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."
"And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own."
"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."
"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."
"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."
"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."
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