# Golub, ‘If Anthropology Is a Humanity, Which Humanity Is It?’, 2019 > [!cite] > Alex Golub (Rex \[pseud.]). ‘If Anthropology Is a Humanity, Which Humanity Is It?’. *Alex Golub*, 13 January 2019. [https://alex.golub.name/2019/01/13/if-anthropology-is-a-humanity-which-humanity-is-it/](https://alex.golub.name/2019/01/13/if-anthropology-is-a-humanity-which-humanity-is-it/). --- ‘Anthropologists are notoriously unwilling to commit to being either a science or a humanity.’ [[Golub, ‘If Anthropology Is a Humanity, Which Humanity Is It’, 2019|(Golub 2019)]] ^b02d77 ‘\[…] anthropology came of age when the distinction between ‘science’ and ‘the humanities’ didn’t exist in its current hard-and-fast form.’ [[Golub, ‘If Anthropology Is a Humanity, Which Humanity Is It’, 2019|(Golub 2019)]] ^c496b8 ‘One of anthropology’s great strength is its willingness to tolerate experimentation.’ [[Golub, ‘If Anthropology Is a Humanity, Which Humanity Is It’, 2019|(Golub 2019)]] ‘At the same time, I think there’s something very valuable about an anthropology that sees itself as adjacent to history or classics or history of religions, and I wouldn’t want to give that up either. In the end, I think the important thing is to keep an open mind — a move that requires us to remember less-used options as much as it means embracing our current trends.’ [[Golub, ‘If Anthropology Is a Humanity, Which Humanity Is It’, 2019|(Golub 2019)]]