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"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
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"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."
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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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"Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races."
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"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
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"If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
Old
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
Friendship
"A great devotee of the gospel of getting on."
Motivation
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
Food
"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
Politics
"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
Power
"The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post."
Love
"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."
Life
"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."
Soul
"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."
Man
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