Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

文化人类学作为一门严格意义上的历史科学,正越来越迅速地实现其自身的价值。

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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

我做过很多实践人类学的研究,和人们一起住在村子里,并意识到摆脱贫困是多么困难。在贫困的时候,人们用他们的技能来避免饥饿。他们不能用它来进步。

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

通常当我第一次去一个地方,除非有什么历史或壮观的自然提供,我喜欢做的第一件事是看看人们的想法。

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

是否存在这样一个临界点,当我们到达临界点时,所有这些经济、文化和道德上的问题都将我们带入一个无法摆脱的死亡漩涡?

Myth is an extremely complex cultural reality, which can be approached and interpreted from various and complementary viewpoints.

神话是一种极其复杂的文化现实,可以从多种互补的观点来探讨和解读。

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

我相信进化,因为一个脾气暴躁的人是爱哭鬼的后代。

Much sooner than we think, comes the end! Science is the only master who can change this.

结束比我们想象的要快得多!科学是唯一能改变这种状况的大师。

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

如果每个物种都存在进化,那么权力下放也同样存在。

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

我对历史上的道歉并不十分感动。