Clyde Kluckhohn Quotes

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Moreover, the recipe for action that must be drawn from applied anthropology thus far is that of caution, of modest expectations as to what can be accomplished by planning, of humanity as to what may be predicted with present instruments for observing and conceptualizing, of preference for vis medicaturix naturae in many social situations.

Clyde Kluckhohn

It is one thing to be able to make some useful predictions as to what is likely to happen... It is quite another thing to interfere, willfully to introduce new complications into an already tortuous social maze.

Clyde Kluckhohn

Anthropology... has explored the gamut of human variability and can best answer the questions: what common ground is there between human beings of all tribes and nations? What differences exist? what is their source? how deep-going are they?

Clyde Kluckhohn

Nonliterate societies represent the end results of many different experiments carried out by nature.

Clyde Kluckhohn

Clyde Kluckhohn

Clyde Kluckhohn

Born: January 11, 1905

Died: July 28, 1960 (aged 55)

Bio: Clyde Kluckhohn, was an American anthropologist and social theorist, best known for his long-term ethnographic work among the Navajo and his contributions to the development of theory of culture within American anthropology.

Known for:

Mirror for man (1944)
The Navaho (1946)
Anthropology and the classics
Navaho material culture
A Bibliography of the Navaho Indians (1940)

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