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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay in the box - but let's face it. Sensible people don't major in anthropology.
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.
I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
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.'
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.