Minority - Anthropology and Language

Famous quotes containing the words anthropology and, anthropology and/or language:

“History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

“I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.”
—J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)

“Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)