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I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.
George Lucas
Work
Me
Together
People
Big
Society
Out
Put
Make
Always
How
Been
Anthropology
Interest
Themselves
Works
Things
Started
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.
Helena Blavatsky
History
Property
Men
Secret
Born
Various
Dates
Countless
Doctrine
Deal
Geology
Anthropology
Times
Esoteric
Common
Refuses
Which
Theories
Teachings
Assign
Incompatible
Millions
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.
Gregory Keyes
Degrees
Anthropology
Friends
Ape
Worked
Who
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
Joan D. Vinge
Life
You
Kind
Vital
Developed
Studying
Anthropology
Existence
Listed
Human
Which
Holistic
Human Existence
Aspects
View
Necessary
Whereas what man can learn about the world through his senses and through the intellect which relies upon sense-observation may be called 'anthropology,' what the spiritual man within us can know may be called 'anthroposophy.'
Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual
Man
World
About
Through
Know
Learn
Within
His
Anthropology
Intellect
May
Whereas
Senses
Which
Us
I fell in love with Norman Mailer's 'Of a Fire on the Moon', a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA - and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life.
Alain de Botton
Life
Love
Moon
Fire
Society
Kind
Inspired
Had
Fell
Him
NASA
Anthropology
Begin
Norman
Modern
Modern Life
Landing
Produced
Description
I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.
Alan Furst
Great
Writing
Training
Some
Write
Never
Major
Got
How
Anthropology
Any
English
English Major
Novels
Margaret
The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.
Ann Leckie
Science
Physics
Engineering
Also
Science Fiction
Anthropology
Linguistics
Just
Fiction
Psychology
Theology is anthropology.
Anselm Feuerbach
Anthropology
Theology
Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.
Bryce Dallas Howard
Rebellion
Everyone
Telling
Go
Anthropology
Forensic
Wanted
Form
Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not Anthropology for Dummies.
Celeste Ng
Power
Detail
Atmosphere
Vivid
Absolutely
Era
Anthropology
Fiction
Place
Us
Teach
Illustrate
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
Clifford Geertz
People
Nervous
Everybody
How
Anthropology
Gets
Different
Asking
Keep
Sociology
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.
Clifford Geertz
Great
Anxiety
Matter
Great Deal
Distinct
Never
Had
Over
Because
Deal
Real
Method
Subject
Anthropology
Subject Matter
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
Clifford Geertz
Criticism
Research
Out
Find
Point
How
Anthropology
Replace
Literary
Literary Criticism
Persuasive
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.
Clifford Geertz
Nature
Knowledge
Thought
Fall
Think
Back
About
More
Anthropology
Rhetoric
Regard
Body
Need
I love Anthropology for kitchenware - they make the best bowls, plates, cutlery etc.
Ella Woodward
Love
Best
Make
Bowls
Anthropology
Etc
Plates
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
Work
Hope
Time
You
Thought
Immortal
Darwin
Imperfectly
Make
Due
However
Anthropology
May
Currents
Which
Succeeded
Helped
Present
Present Time
Presenting
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.
George Lucas
Science
Culture
Looking
Before
Living
Had
Major
Call
Sort
Became
Does
Anthropology
Lot
Very
Done
Psychology
Which
Social
Organism
Film
Why
Sociology
Playing
I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.
Joanna Coles
Life
Work
Time
Home
Earth
My Time
Look
Anthropology
Social
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.
Kathy Reichs
Work
Education
You
School
Degree
Chemistry
Physical
Study
Well
Chemist
Go
Anthropologist
Anthropology
Forensic
Get
Graduate
Graduate School
Want
Hard
Specialized
Need
Bones
In 1981, while doing postdoctoral field work in cultural anthropology, Bonnie A. Nardi lived with villagers in Western Samoa, trying to understand the cultural reasons that people there have an average of eight children.
Katie Hafner
Work
People
Field
Understand
Doing
Anthropology
Cultural
Western
Trying
Eight
Children
While
Average
Reasons
Lived
I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
Marie Brennan
History
Think
Honestly
More
Writer
Study
Most
Anthropology
Than
Fields
Fantasy
Useful
Even
When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.
Mary Doria Russell
Family
City
Girlfriend
Ruth
Poetry
Weeks
Studying
Accepted
Were
Anthropology
Mexican
Mexico
Mexico City
Six
Lovely
While
Placed
Spanish
Them
Us
Lived
Applied
Program
My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.
Michael Pollan
Work
Politics
Time
Food
You
Political
Economics
Once
Find
More
Over
Deal
Gotten
Anthropology
Up
Different
Psychology
Against
Exploring
Different Things
Things
Start
Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.
Micky Dolenz
Physics
Enormous
Everything
Kid
Had
Since
Quantum
Sciences
Quantum Physics
Anthropology
Interest
Ever
For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly.
Nick Rhodes
Me
Better
Bit
Telly
Staying
Always
Anthropology
Than
Evening
Watching
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