Ethnography
Quotes & Thinkers in Ethnography
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"With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art."
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🇺🇸Pitirim Sorokin
Politics
Western philosophy
1889–1968
"Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love."
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🇬🇧Anthony D. Smith
Economics
1939–2016
19 quotes
🇬🇧James Frazer
Literature
1854–1941
"The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being."
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🇺🇸Kristen Ghodsee
Education
b. 1970
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Notable Quotes
"The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough."
— James Frazer, b. 1854View →
"The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes."
— James Frazer, b. 1854View →
"If any of my readers set out with the notion that that all races of men think and act much in the same way as educated Englishmen, the evidence of superstitious belief and custom collected in this work should suffice to disabuse him of so erroneous a prepossession."
— James Frazer, b. 1854View →
"To a modern reader the connexion at first site may not be obvious between the activity of the hangman and the productivity of the earth."
— James Frazer, b. 1854View →
"It is not a new opinion that the Golden Bough was the mistletoe. True, Virgil does not identify but only compares it with the mistletoe. But this may be only a poetical device to cast a mystic glamour over the humble plant."
— James Frazer, b. 1854View →