It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.
Clifford GeertzTags: culture anthropology
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
Clifford GeertzTags: culture anthropology
If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something similar might be said about human societies. If two nearby societies are in contact for any length of time, they will either trade or fight. The first is non-zero-sum social integration, and the second ultimately brings it.
Robert WrightTags: human-condition anthropology sociology
Alle äußeren Feinde und Widerstände ermangelnd, eingesperrt in unterdrückende Enge und Ordnung, hat der Mensch schließlich keine andere Wahl, als sich selbst zu einem Abenteuer zu machen.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: freedom anthropology
All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Robert OwenTags: humor people philosophy anthropology
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?
Margaret MeadTags: psychology insight anthropology
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
Ludwig FeuerbachTags: science theology anthropology humanization modern-era
The pure products of America
go crazy...
...[] No one
to witness
and adjust, no one to drive the car
Tags: poetry anthropology
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.
Marshall SahlinsTags: technology evolution culture anthropology hunger starvation hunters stone-age
The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever its comforts for those afraid reality is going to go away unless we believe very hard in it, not conduced to much in the way of clarity in the anti-relativist discussion, but merely to far too many people spending far too much time describing at length what it is they do not maintain than seems in any way profitable.
Clifford GeertzTags: anthropology anti-relativism
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