Alfred L. Kroeber Professions : Anthropologist Born : June 11, 1876 Died : October 5, 1960 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Alfred L. Kroeber Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. Alfred L. Kroeber humanistic anthropology humanity All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality. Alfred L. Kroeber law men art Similar Authors Bronislaw Malinowski anthropologist Angeles Arrien anthropologist Ann Dunham anthropologist Ashley Montagu anthropologist Arthur Demarest anthropologist Anthony F. C. Wallace anthropologist All Authors
