Cultural Anthropology

🇳🇴Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Politics

1962–2024

"One reason for the increased interest in studies of identity in anthropology may be the fact that issues to do with the nature of groups have become hugely important in politics worldwide in the last decades."

🇺🇸Clifford Geertz

Philosophy

1926–2006

"In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator."

🇺🇸Ernest Becker

Literature

1924–1974

"The neurotic opts out of life because he is having trouble maintaining his illusions about it, which proves nothing less than that life is possible only with illusions."

🇬🇧Bronisław Malinowski

Art

1884–1942

"Ethnology or Anthropology, the science of Man, must not shun him in his innermost self, in his instinctive and emotional life."

🇺🇸Pitirim Sorokin

Politics

Western philosophy

1889–1968

"Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!"