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I fell in love with Norman Mailer's 'Of a Fire on the Moon', a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA - and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Anthropology Begin Description Fell Fire Had Him Inspired Kind Landing Life Love Modern Modern Life Moon Nasa Norman Produced Society

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In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

~Alan Dundes

Topics: Anthropology Course Folklore Forms Genres How Major Minor Show Students Try

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I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Anthropology Any English English Major Got Great How Major Margaret Never Novels Some Training Write Writing

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I cannot wait until the day I can go back to school... I've already picked my program: anthropology at Columbia. I will not get in, but a girl can dream.

~Allison Williams

Topics: Anthropology Back Back To School Cannot Columbia Day Dream Get Girl Go Picked Program School Until Wait Will I Can

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The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: Also Anthropology Engineering Fiction Just Linguistics Physics Psychology Science Science Fiction

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Theology is anthropology.

~Anselm Feuerbach

Topics: Anthropology Theology

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I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.

~Bozoma Saint John

Topics: Anthropology Born Connecticut Dad Getting His University While I Was Born

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Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.

~Bryce Dallas Howard

Topics: Anthropology Everyone Forensic Form Go Rebellion Telling Wanted

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I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

~Caitlin Kittredge

Topics: About Anthropology Been Beginning Books Forensic Kick Lot Profiling Psychological Reading Science

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Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not Anthropology for Dummies.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Absolutely Anthropology Atmosphere Detail Era Fiction Illustrate Place Power Teach Us Vivid

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