One example was the assertion that a seven-year FBI study revealed no evidence of organized cult or ritual activity in the United States. In reality there is no such study. The day following the ABC program, my office contacted the FBI and requested ...
In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek m...
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
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.
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.
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
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.
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.
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
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.
I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.
I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropol...
Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
