ethnology

🇺🇸Margaret Mead

ethnology

1901–1978

"Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance."

"To Freud's confusion on what do women want, I would say we want to dismantle a racist and misogynist heteronormative patriarchy that sucks the life out of women."

🇺🇸A. James Gregor

Science

1929–2019

"Mussolini insisted that Fascism was the only form of ‘socialism’ appropriate to the ‘proletarian nations’ of the twentieth century."

Harry Johnston

Art

1858–1927

"It is the first rational exposition of the relations of mankind to the mystery which shrouds the how and wherefore of man's existence, the first honest protest against our long, long martyrdom."

🇫🇷Émile_Durkheim

Science

1858–1917

"Methodological rules are for science what rules of law and custom are for conduct."

🇺🇸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."

🇺🇸Edward Sapir

Education

1884–1939

"Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols."

🇬🇧James Frazer

Literature

1854–1941

"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."