Ethnologist

🇬🇧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."

🇺🇸Moses I. Finley

Economics

1912–1986

"Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language."

🇺🇸David Graeber

Politics

social anarchism

1961–2020

"The moment we begin to map the history of money across the last five thousand years of Eurasian history, startling patterns begin to emerge."

🇬🇧Gregory Bateson

Science

1904–1980

"Epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?"

🇬🇧Desmond Morris

Art

Surrealism

b. 1928

"The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."

Harry Johnston

Art

1858–1927

"Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable."

🇬🇧Richard Francis Burton

Military

1821–1890

"The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own."

🇬🇧James Frazer

Literature

1854–1941

"The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being."

🇺🇸Ward Churchill

Education

b. 1947

"Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School where, during the 1920s, children caught "talking Indian" suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues."

🇺🇸Joseph Campbell

Literature

1904–1987

"Joseph Campbell, A Scholar's Life by Jonathan Young, PhD"

🇩🇪Alexander von Humboldt

Philosophy

1767–1835

"Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things."

Roger Williams (theologian)

Religion

1603–1683

"Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will."

🇺🇸Edward Sapir

Education

1884–1939

"Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive — that is, as immodest — as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem."