Social 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 Gellner

Philosophy

critical rationalism

1925–1995

"Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society."

"For all of us who have been fortunate enough to make capital, we can’t take it with us in any case, so let’s act responsibly with it. Let’s put something back in."

🇺🇸David Graeber

Politics

social anarchism

1961–2020

"Slavery is the ultimate form of being ripped from one's context, and thus from all the social relationships that make one a human being."

🇬🇧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."